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The Pennacook, also known by the names Penacook and Pennacock, were Algonquian Indigenous people who lived in what is now Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and southern Maine. They were not a united tribe but a network of politically and culturally allied communities. [ 1 ]
Kancamagus (pronounced "kan-kah-mah-gus", "Fearless One", [1] "Fearless Hunter of Animals" [2]), was the third and final Sagamore of the Penacook Confederacy of Native American tribes. Nephew of Wonalancet and grandson of Passaconaway , [ 3 ] Kancamagus ruled what is now southern New Hampshire .
However, the French practice of calling the Cowasuck by the name Penacook, led to misunderstandings in their reports. [13] [better source needed] This however is not mentioned in another authoritative source on the Penacook. [14] The tribes of the Western Abenaki were referred to by the names of each individual group.
Pennacook (also Penacook, Penikoke, Openango), lived in the Merrimack Valley, therefore sometimes called Merrimack. Principal village Penacook, New Hampshire. The Pennacook were once a large confederacy who were politically distinct and competitive with their northern Abenaki neighbors. Smaller tribes: Amoskeay; Cocheco; Nashua
In New English Canaan (1637) Thomas Morton wrote the name as "Papasiquineo". At some point in the late 1830s American author Samuel G. Drake either theorized, or encountered someone else's theory, that these names are all derived from words for "child" and "bear" - he made the claim for the first time in the 1841 8th edition of his Indian ...
Visitors of the Denver Art Museum look at an item, called Drum (Gaaw) on display behind glass in the Northwest Coast and Alaska Native Art Galleries on March 27, 2024.
The name Contoocook came from the Pennacook tribe of Native Americans and perhaps means "place of the river near pines". Other variations of the name include the Abenaki meaning "nut trees river" or Natick language meaning "small plantation at the river."
The name comes from the Pennacook tribe that lived in the area. "Penacook" (Pennycook) was the original name of the plantation incorporated by present-day Concord. [3] Penacook is located along a stretch of the Contoocook River that falls 100 feet (30 m) in slightly over 1 mile (1.6 km), just before joining the Merrimack River.