Narragansett

[ nar-uh-gan-sit ]

noun

, plural Nar·ra·gan·setts, (especially collectively) Nar·ra·gan·sett.

1. a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquian family formerly located in Rhode Island but now almost extinct.
2. an Algonquian language, the language of the Narragansett Indians.
3. a town in S Rhode Island: includes a resort Narragansett Pier.

Narragansett

/ ˌnærəˈɡænsɪt /

noun

1. -sett-setts a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in Rhode Island
2. the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family

Example Sentences

A few decades later, in 1676, future Harvard president Increase Mather urged and then celebrated a genocide of the Narragansett people, declaring, in his chronicle of "The Warr with the Indians in New England":

From Salon

In recent months, winter storms and high surf have battered the U.S., sending water pouring over seawalls from Seattle to Salem, Mass. Protective walls were breached in Narragansett, R.I.;

From Seattle Times

But after the January storms, a heavily damaged house that tilted into the ocean in Narragansett, Rhode Island, signaled to some that with the world’s changing climate the ocean is creeping ever closer to places people live.

From Seattle Times

Carbone, a citizen of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island, thought back to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she has lived for much of her life.

From Seattle Times

This is even more true regarding the Yarmouth Stone and the Narragansett Runestone, discovered in Nova Scotia and Rhode Island in 1812 and 1984, respectively.

From Slate