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Long before Rhode Island was named it was home to bands of the Nipmuc, Pequot, Niantic, Narragansett and Wampanoag tribes; they spoke a dialect of the Algonquian language known as Natick.

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the largest tribes known to have settled were the Wampanoag, the Pequots, the Narragansett, and the NIpmuck

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