The Nipmuc had a written language, tools, a graphite mine at Sturbridge, and well-developed agriculture, including maize ( a variant of corn ), beans and squash. Nipmuck Nation website

Letter of Intent to Petition 04 / 22 / 1980 as part of Nipmuc Nation ; separate letter of intent 5 / 31 / 1996 ; proposed finding was in progress.

Flag of the Nipmuc Nation

Nipmuc Nation is a self-identifier used by Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuc of Worcester County, Massachusetts.

The following is based upon " Proposed Finding Against Federal Acknowledgment of the Webster / Dudley Band of Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck Indians " ( Oct. 2001 ) and reiterated in the " Final Determination to Decline Federal Acknowledgment of The Nipmuck Nation " ( June 2004 ) and as such represents the views of the Department of the Interior and may differ from the views of Nipmuc Nation representatives.

The historical tribe with which the Nipmuc Nation group asserts continuity was the Hassanamisco Nipmuc of southeastern Worcester County, Massachusetts.

At the time of the petition, the Nipmuc Nation group had 526 members.

A limited relationship was created between the Nipmuc Nation and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts after the establishment of the Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs ( MCIA ) in 1976.

As such, the Nipmuc Nation does not meet the Federal criterion which requires that it has been identified as an American Indian entity on a substantially continuous basis since 1900.

The Nipmuc Nation group does not meet the Federal criterion which requires that a predominant portion of the petitioning group comprise a distinct community from historical times until the present.

The available evidence did not indicate to the government's satisfaction that the Nipmuc Nation maintained political influence over its members as an autonomous entity from historical times until the present.

Therefore, 45 percent of the Nipmuc Nation does not have documented ancestry from either the historical Hassanamisco tribe or the historical Dudley / Webster tribe.

From 1785 through the early 1950s there continued to be a limited community made up of some of the descendants of the original Hassanamisco families residing in Grafton and in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts but only two percent of the Nipmuc petitioners members descend from the Hassanamisco property-owning families.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Zara Ciscoe Brough, then the owner of the Hassanamisco Reservation property, created a number of lists of Nipmuc Indians.

At sunrise on February 10, 1675, during King Philip's War, Lancaster came under attack by Narragansett, Wampanoag and Nashaway / Nipmuc Indians.

Metacomet escaped an attempt to trap him in the Plymouth Colony ; the uprising spread across Massachusetts as other bands, such as the Nipmuc, joined the fight.

# A 1676 treaty between the Mohawk nation and the colonies of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut which ended King Philip's War in New England ; it also governed relations between the Iroquois and a number of other tribes, including the Mahicans of the Hudson River, and the Nipmuc, Mohegan, and Massachusett of New England.

Memorial Elementary School and Nipmuc Regional High School are part of the public school system of Mendon-Upton Regional School District.

This village was originally Nipmuc Indian lands, and was first settled as part of Mendon in 1662.

The latter properties he purchased from the Nipmuc in partnership with William Stoughton, and was granted land for the purpose of settling French Huguenots that became part of Oxford.

The Pakachoag tribe of the Nipmuc nation of Native Americans were the indigenous settlers of the area.

Prior to the arrival of English colonists, the Massachusetts portion of the Connecticut River valley was occupied by the Nipmuc, an Algonquin-speaking tribe.

In the 1670s the Nipmuc had a village called Peskeompscut in that area.

From a very early period reaching beyond 1635, bands of Native Americans, principally the Nipmuc tribe, dominated this region of Worcester County.

The Blackstone River was once called the Nipmuc River.

The Nipmuc people once inhabited Mendon, and Nipmuc Pond is named for them.

Nipmuc Regional High School was named after this lake.

The Nipmuc name does not refer to a specific village or tribe, but to natives that inhabited almost all of central Massachusetts.

Over 500 Nipmuc live today in Massachusetts, and there are two nearby reservations at Grafton and Webster.

These were two of the 14 Praying Indian villages established by Reverend John Eliot, from Natick and Roxbury, who translated the Bible into the Nipmuc language.

The land for the settlement was square of Native American land in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was purchased from the Nipmuc Indians, “ for divers good and vallewable considerations them there unto Moovinge and especiall for an in consideration of the summe of twenty fower pound Ster .” In 1662, " Squinshepauke Plantation was started at the Netmocke settlement and plantation ", and was incorporated as the town of Mendon in 1667.

During King Phillips War, many Nipmuc from around Marlboro and Natick were re-located to Deer Island, and many died from the harsh winter in 1675.

Lake Nipmuc Park was a popular resort in the early 20th century, featuring leading musical and vaudeville talent.

The first gig of Aerosmith took place at Nipmuc Regional High School in this town on November 6, 1970. History teacher Carl Olson hired the band and allowed them to use the girls ' locker room, which they trashed with beer bottles.

Northbridge claims to history include: Native American Nipmuc lands, Colonel John Spring, who led the Uxbridge militia training company in the American Revolution, Samuel Spring, Revolutionary War Chaplain, the Residence of Ezra T. Benson 1830-1832, the birthplace of President Millard Fillmore's mother, Phoebe, and home to the Whitin Machine Works from 1831 to 1964

Upton was originally the home of the Nipmuc, who inhabited most of central Massachusetts.

The band Aerosmith played their first gig in 1970 at the then Nipmuc Regional High School, now called Miscoe Hill Middle School.

Upton includes several school systems: Memorial School, Nipmuc Regional High School, and Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School.

Burrilville was probably first settled sometime around 1662, when the first Europeans began to settle the Nipmuc lands.

The Nipmuc word for snake was rendered " askug " by Roger Williams in his A Key Into the Language of America, and " askoog " by the Reverend John Eliot in his Algonqian translation of the Bible.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs determined that only two percent of the current membership of the Nipmuck Nation group descends from the historical Hassanamisco Indians.