Naiganset

The Naiganset, or Narragansett, controlled lands west of Narragansett Bay, in Rhode Island and parts of neighbouring Connecticut and Massachusetts.

They allied with English colonists against the Pequot in 1636–1638, and Roger Williams published a guide to their language in 1643. During King Philip's War they signed a neutrality treaty with Massachusetts in 1675, but that December colonial militia attacked their Great Swamp fort, killing many people, including women and children.