Massachuset inhabit Boston.

The tribe (whose name means “People of the Great Hill”) belong to the Eastern Algonquin nation and inhabit the area south of today’s Charles River, west to Newton, and south to Brockton and Marshfield. In winter, they live inland in villages that include Mushauwomuk (“Big Eel”) on the Shawmut (“place of clear waters”) Peninsula, at Neponset in today’s Dorchester; at Mosetuset Hummock at today’s Squantum, and several other villages to today’s Boston. In the summer, they move around Boston Harbor (Quonehassit, “place where the waters rise and fall.”) and along the coast. By the time of the arrival of the English (whom they call Chogquosuogg), their chief or sachem is Chickataubut. The tribe maintains alliances with the Pawtucket, north of the Charles River, the Pokanoket (later called the Wampanoag), to the south, and the Nauset, on Cape Cod. Their rivals in the Boston area are the Nipmucks and the Pocumtucks.