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Narragansetts   Listen
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Narragansetts  n. pl.  (singular Narragansett) (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay.






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"Narragansetts" Quotes from Famous Books



... movements among the Indian tribes on our frontier, from the time of the Apostle, John Eliot, to the present, woman has taken, directly or indirectly, an active part. In the mission schools at Stockbridge and Hanover; among the Narragansetts, the Senecas, the Iroquois, the Cherokees, the Choctaws, the Creeks, and many other tribes, we see her, as a missionary's wife, with one hand sustaining her husband in his trying labors, while with the other she bears the blessed gospel—a light to the tawny Gentiles ...
— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler



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