NARRAGANSET

Naragansett, "People off the Point," were eastern Algonquin hunters, gatherers, fishermen, whalers, warriors, medicine people, and traders who lived in stockaded villages in what is now Rhode Island. Settlement pressures and warfare thinned their numbers, but the Narragansett are still centered in Charlestown, Rhode Island, where their tribal headquarters, church, and long house are located.