Nipmuc Indians, a tribe of the Algonquian language family living mainly in inland Massachusetts. The Nipmucs, which included a group of Christian Indians organized into seven villages, took part in King Philip's War against New England colonists, 1675–76. Afterward they fled to the Hudson River Valley and Canada.
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