The Pennacook Indians were the first and the largest Indian tribe in nh that were Algonquian. I'm not sure about the Abnaki.
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Long before Rhode Island was named it was home to bands of the Nipmuc, Pequot, Niantic, Narragansett and Wampanoag tribes; they spoke a dialect of the Algonquian language known as Natick.
In colonial times, the eastern United States was settled by groups of tribes that spoke some form of the Algonquian language. In the area that is now New England, there were the Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan, Narragansett, Nipmuch, Passamaquoddy, Pennacook, Pequot, Pocumtuc, Tunxis, and Wampanoag tribes. In the mid-Atlantic area, there were the Lenape and bands of Pequot. Along the Chesapeake Bay and southeastern board, there were the Chickahominy, Nanticoke, Powhaton, and Wicocomico tribes.
Some of the native American Indians that lived in Texas in 1800's include Alabama-Coushatta, Apache, Anadarko, Arapahoe, Caddo, Biloxi, Cherokee andÊChickasaw. Others include Wichita, Waco, Tigua and Tonkawa.
The US did not exist at the time. In the area that is now covered by the US, nothing at all happened that we know of.
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