Nashaway

Nashaway
	The Nashua River in Groton, Massachusetts. The tribe took its name from this tributary of the Merrimack River
Total population
	extinct as a tribe
Regions with significant populations
	southern New Hampshire, northern Massachusetts
Languages
	unattested Eastern Algonquian language
Religion
	Indigenous
Related ethnic groups
	Powhatan Confederacy

The Nashaway (or Nashua or Weshacum) were a tribe of Algonquian Indians inhabiting the upstream portions of the Nashua River valley in what is now the northern half of Worcester County, Massachusetts, mainly in the vicinity of Sterling, Lancaster and other towns near Mount Wachusett, as well as southern New Hampshire.^[1] The meaning of Nashaway is "between," an adverbial form derived from "nashau" meaning "someone is between/in the middle" = adverbial suffix "we" ^[2]^[3]

^ ^a ^b Gordon M. Day, "Western Abenaki," p. 148
^ Trumbull, James Hammond (1903), "Natick Dictionary," p. 78, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnography.
^ Gustafson, Holly (2000), "A Grammar of the Nipmuc Language," University of Manitoba.

[day148-1] Gordon M. Day, "Western Abenaki," p. 148

[2] Trumbull, James Hammond (1903), "Natick Dictionary," p. 78, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnography.

[3] Gustafson, Holly (2000), "A Grammar of the Nipmuc Language," University of Manitoba.

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