What were the Native Americans that lived in pre-colonial Nashua NH called? What was there story?

Nashua was named after the Nashua tribe of Native Americans (Indians) who were part of the Pennacook Confederation. These were Algonquian tribes who were classed with the Mahican. They were more or less allied with more northern tribes who were allied with the French and hostile to the English; but, under the leader Wannalancit remained at peace with the English colonists.

However, they were betrayed by them and forced to flee to Canada. Their descendants still dwell near Quebec.

Nh. Com------- Native Americans were the first to revere the coast, woods, rivers, and mountains of New Hampshire. Human settlement in New England began after the migration across the Bering land bridge roughly 12,000 years ago.

There is scattered evidence of prehistoric settlement and few major preserved sites, save for the well-preserved ruins at "America's Stonehenge" in North Salem (many questions surround its true origins and purpose the carbon dating takes this collection of oddly positioned rocks and carvings, mythologized by some to be the dwelling of early Celtic druids, to about 4000 B.C.). The first noted settlement of the region came as nomadic groups of Abenaki and Algonquin peoples began to localize in present-day New Hampshire, attracted to the favorable hunting, fishing, and trade access with other communities. With abundant streams, forests, and four seasons, trapping and trading with other groups became a way of life for these earliest New Hampshirites.

They made pottery as early as 1000 B.C. and it is clear that these groups were avid fishermen, as described centuries later in the 1500s by inland explorers who found settlements along what are today the Connecticut, Androscoggin, Saco, and Merrimack Rivers, the lakes, and the coast. The native peoples of New England are collectively known as Algonquin Indians, of which the New Hampshire groups are called Abenaki, from woban meaning daybreak and aki meaning earth/land, or "Wan-ban-auke" meaning "the people living in the land of the Northern Lights. " Abenakis range into Vermont and southern Quebec.

Abenakis are further divided into Coos, Pequaket, Ossipee, Pemigewasset, Winnibisauga, Nashua, Piscataqua, Cocheco, Amoskeay, Penacook, and Souhegan tribes. Tribal groups along a river valley or between mountain ranges were further subdivided by sagamores who headed village communities. The largely male-dominated society organized itself around hunting and food gathering, leaving womenfolk to tend to food preparation and child care.

From the archaeological record, native New Hampshirites dined as well as modern-day ones, selecting venison, turkey, and other wild birds, and fish, along with wild fruits, berries, squash, pumpkin, and maize eaten both off the cob and ground with stone to make meal. The native calendar included feast days, festivals, sports including the ancient game of lacrosse, and harvest time. In this, "traditional New England" cuisine and custom has roots from long before white man came ashore.

In the White Mountains, the Abenaki, Sokosi, and Penacook were scattered throughout the river valleys, and they used these waterways as a lifeline for fish and trade with other settlements. The mountains, places of spirits and sources of inspirational powers, were held in reverence and assigned majestic and deified names, many of which remain today in their Anglicized form. Examples include Waumbek Mountain, meaning "white mountain," and Kancamagus Highway, after the great Native American chief Kancamagus.

Language Abenaki was an oral language, thus no written record exists of the early communication among tribes in the region. By the early 18th century French settlers from Quebec, eager to establish contacts for trade, learned some of the language and forged relations that would be crucial in political and wartime events in coming years. It wasn't until 1884 that Abenaki chieftain Joseph Laurent published the first Abenaki-English dictionary, titled New Familiar Abenaki and English Dialogues.

The majority of Native American names in the state are taken from the Anglicized original Abenaki. Though those who identify themselves as Abenaki today number only in the hundreds and few speak the native language, the nation has an identity and convenes throughout the Northeast. In recent years rifts have occurred among groups of Abenaki from Vermont to Quebec to New Hampshire.

Some groups have sought individual nation status while others are content to remain part of the Republic. Recognition was granted in Vermont in the 1970s, only to be rescinded within months by a newly elected governor unwilling to carry the political weight of recognition. Ultimate acknowledgment of self-government comes from Washington's Bureau of Indian Affairs, and there seems to be no great feeling there to further subdivide Indian nations in northern New England.

Native Routes Many of New Hampshire's modern roadways were laid down centuries ago by Indian hunters and traders. These byways through and around forests, lakes, and mountains were vital links to fishing and growing areas. The Amoskeag Falls and Weirs at Winnipesaukee drew thousands in the summer for the prime fish catches.

European settlers adopted and improved the roads for their own use, but the routes remain much the same after generations. Summertime and the fishin' is easy well explains why a number of roads in the lakes and mountains regions to this day don't take the most direct or obvious path to get from one town to another. Canoes from hollowed trees were used extensively on waterways throughout the Northeast.

Modern-day discoveries have turned up native canoes buried in mud of riverbanks. A wonderful example, thought to have been used in the mid-1500s, sits under glass in the New Hampshire Museum of History in Concord. The curators were careful to seek Abenaki guidance before displaying such an artifact, making sure the piece was not part of a ritual burial site.

With this efficient mode of transportation between tribes, it is clear that New Hampshire's native peoples were well-connected for travel and trade. Life must have been challenging but rich in prehistoric New Hampshire. The Abenaki caught deer, moose, and beaver, salmon, shad, and lamprey; berries, nuts, and other edible plants were abundant.

The land offered game, vegetation, fish food, and seasons to grow, gather, and store. Culture and custom guided routine according to the seasons and trade with neighboring groups. But life as the native people knew it was about to change.

Excerpted from the "New Hampshire Handbook," ©1998.

It apears there were Mohawks in that area when the colonists arrived. History of Nashua, NH, nashuanh.gov/ states: "Here in the 1640’s, John Eliot “Apostle to the Indians”, colonial English land speculators, soldiers, and eventually settlers encountered the great Emperor or “Bashaba” of the Pennacooks, Passaconaway and his son Wannalancit. “In 1659, a grant of 400 acres, lying at the mouth of Salmon Brook, was made to John Whiting…The land which lay between Salmon Brook and the Merrimack River was called “The Neck”, and for greater security the “housne-lots” of the first settlers were laid out adjoining each other, and within The Neck.

” " For more information, see: http://www.gonashua.com/ArtsandLeisure/HistoryofNashuaNH/tabid/337/Default.aspx http://sidis.net/PASSChap3.htm.

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