Nipmuc Indian Association of Connecticut The Nipmuc Indian Association of Connecticut is dedicated to our Nipmuc ancestors, to our future seven generations, and to all who have helped our People. Nipmuc Indians are the original people of central New England, and are among the Eastern Woodlands or Algonquian Indians of the Eastern United States. Before the arrival of European settlers in the ...

NIPMUC HISTORY Nipmuc Location Central plateau of Massachusetts extending south into northern Rhode Island and northeast Connecticut. Population Estimates of the pre-contact population of the Nipmuc are at best confusing, because there is no agreement as to which groups belonged to the Nipmuc. The numbers vary between 3, 000 and 10, 000 with as many as 40 villages. Some Nipmuc tribes were ...