Indigenous Peoples of Massachusetts

Name of Massachusetts originates from an Indian word meaning "at or about the great hill"

The following list of tribes is compiled from:

Hodge, Frederick Webb. ''Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. '' Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institutuion, Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin #30 1907.

Swanton, John R. The Indian Tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin #145

Tribes and Bands of Massachusetts
Mahican, Massachuset, Nauset, Nipmuc, Pennacook, Pocomtuc, Wampanoag

Reservations
Wampanoag Reservation

See also:
Massachusetts-History for a calendar of events