FDI - Niantic

The Niantic were sedentary hunter/ farmer tribes. They were comprised of two divisions, having been divided by the Pequot. The Eastern Niantic lived along the western coast of Rhode Island and the neighboring coast of Connecticut. The Western Niantic were located on the coast from Niantic Bay to the Connecticut River. The western division was nearly destroyed by the Whites. The tribes ultimately joined other cultures.

Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages)

CT Western (2)

RI Eastern (1)

Year	*History*
1614	First contact with Dutch traders, devastated by warfare and epidemics; Western Niantic allied with the Pequot; Eastern Niantic allied with the Narragansett
1620	English settlement at Plymouth
1630	Arrival a of large numbers of Puritans rivaled Dutch in fur trade
1633	English trading post established at Windsor
1634	Western Niantic killed pirate and slaver John Stone while in the act of kidnapping Niantic women and children; English demand for killers was denied
1635	English build Fort Saybrook at the mouth of the Connecticut River
1637	Beginning of Pequot War involving Western Niantic; Endicott expedition killed 14 Niantic and burned their village and later burned a Pequot village; John Mason led army of English, Narragansett, and Mohegan destroyed the Pequot fort on the Mystic River and hunted down fleeing Pequot and Niantics killing or enslaving all but 100 Niantics who were put under the control of the Mohegan
1655	Some Pequot and Niantics were removed from Mohegan control due to harsh treatment and sent to eastern Connecticut
1675	Narragansett almost exterminated in King Philip's War
1680	Surviving Narragansett and Eastern Niantic settled in Charlestown
1788	Some Western Niantic who had remains with the Mohegan joined the Brothertons to live with the Oneida in upstate New York
1834	Brothertons removed to Wisconsin

*Ethnie:*	NIANTIC
*Language:*	Wampanoag
*Family:*	Eastern Algonquian
*Stock:*	Algonquian
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands
Speakers	None

Year	Total Population	CT	RI	Source
1620	1,500			Dick Shovel
1700	200	100	100	NAHDB calculation
1800	0			NAHDB calculation
1900	0			NAHDB calculation
2000	0			NAHDB calculation