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What the Wangunk Drank

By Katherine Hermes and Alexandra Maravel © Connecticut Explored

Nipmuc drinking cup. image: Nipmuc Indian Association of Connecticut, Thompson, Connecticut

Roger Williams’s A Key into the Language of America, first published in London in 1643, is one of the earliest English sources on southern New England Algonquian language and cus…