An undated map of Native territories of Dawnland
An undated map of Native territories of Dawnland that the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag display on their website.
A 1921 map by Sidney Perley outlines what early European settler-colonists observed as the boundaries of Native groups. The Naumkeag people are defined by their relationship to the Wahquack River (known today as the Bass River)