Wangunk

Member of an American Indian people who lived on either side of the Connecticut River, Connecticut (now the cities of Portland and Middleton). They spoke an Algonquian dialect. The Wangunk occupied fertile land, over which they farmed, fished, and hunted. Attacked by the Pequot, who claimed and sold some of their territory to the Dutch, they were aided by the British and granted reservation land on the Connecticut around 1650. However, from the 1670s they were pressured to sell this valuable land, and between the 1690s and 1765 the reservation was parcelled off by individuals. Many Wangunk migrated to Farmington, Connecticut and Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

The term River Indians was commonly used by the Dutch and English settlers.