Naumkeag people

Naumkeag was a historical settlement of Eastern Algonquian-speaking Native American people near present-day Salem, Massachusetts, meaning "fishing place," from namaas (fish), ki (place) and age (at) or by another translation "eel-land."

The settlement Naumkeag was one of a group of politically connected settlements affiliated with the Pawtucket Confederacy under the leadership of the sachem Nanepashemet and his wife the Squaw Sachem and their descendants, which controlled most of the territory from the Charles River to the Merrimack River at the time of the Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640). Although referred to in this article as Naumkeag, confusion exists about the proper contemporary endonym for this group, who are variously referred to in European documents as Naumkeag, Pawtucket, Penticut, Mystic or Wamesit, or by the name of their current sachem or sagamore.