History of Massachusetts

Early

Massachusetts was originally inhabited by tribes of the Algonquian linguistic family such as the Wampanoag, Nauset, Nipmuc, Pocomtuc, Mahican, and Massachuset.[38][39] While cultivation of crops like squash and corn supplemented their diets, these tribes were generally dependent on hunting, gathering and fishing for most of their food supply.[38] Villages consisted of lodges called wigwams as well as long houses,[39] and tribes were led by male elders known as sachems.[40] Large numbers of the indigenous people of the northeast of what is now the United States were killed by waves of smallpox, measles and influenza in the early seventeenth century.[41] In 1617–1619, smallpox reportedly killed 90% of the Massachusetts Bay Native Americans.

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