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The Niantic were an Algonquian speaking people. They lived on corn, beans, and squash, supplemented by hunting, fishing, and collecting. Conflict broke out between the Niantic and their colonial neighbors, leading to punitive military expeditions that dealt out massive destruction in contrast to the rather limited incidents that had provoked the conflict. As the violence became more widespread it evolved into the Pequot War in 1637 . This conflict resulted in almost total destruction of the Western Niantic. Following King Philip's War , surviving Narragansett fled in such numbers to the Eastern Niantic and merged with them so that the amalgamation was sometimes referred to as the Narragansett tribe. |
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