Interior bands of central Massachusetts, heavily missionized in the 1650s-60s.
Not an ending: the Nipmuc's independent standing on their own ground broke in King Philip's War (1675-76) — survivors were interned on Deer Island, killed, enslaved, or scattered, and the colony absorbed their territory. The Hassanamisco and Chaubunagungamaug bands preserved small landholdings (a few acres each) through the following centuries and remain state-recognized by Massachusetts today, continuing as a living tribal community even though they hold no larger bounded land base.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Nipmuc — the shape you scrub through changes in 1630 · 1676.
The Nipmuc homeland is central to this history of King Philip’s War.
King Philip’s War and its meaning in early New England.