The Sakonnet people are
Native Americans in the United States, related to the
Wampanoag people
The Wampanoag , also rendered Wôpanâak, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands based in southeastern Massachusetts and historically parts of eastern Rhode Island,Salwen, "Indians of Southern New England and Long Island," p. 17 ...
who spoke a dialect of the
Massachusett language. The tribal name was applied to
Rhode Island's
Sakonnet River, Sakonnet Harbor, and other geographic features.
[Such as Sakonnet Cove in Mount Hope Bay, Sakonnet Point, and much later to Sakonnet Light.]
Alternate spellings
The spelling "Sakonnet" has become accepted because of long use on maps, but the name is sometimes written as 'Sekonnet', 'Seaconnet', 'Sakonnet', 'Saconnet', 'Sakonett', or 'Segonet'.
References
Algonquian peoples
Native American tribes in Rhode Island
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