Pawtucket
The Algonkian word Pawtucket means the ?little falls,? describing a place at the bend in the river Merrimack, between the White mountains and ocean. Pawtucket homelands are along the Merrimack, in present-day northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire. Culturally and linguistically, they are eastern Algonkian and eastern Abenaki or Wôbanaki. They were close neighbors and diplomatic allies of the Pennacook.