Sturbridge, and advanced agricutlure–"the 3 sisters", Maize , beans, and squash. Algonquin couple, The Nipmuck were an Algonquin tribe related to the Narragansett and the Massachusett . Nipmuck dancers today in the Blackstone Valley Puritan Missionary, John Eliot, started 14 Praying Indian Villages such as those at RIce City and Wacentug