However, disease, starvation, battle losses, and the lack of gunpowder caused the Indian effort to collapse by the end of March. The Wampanoag sachem Massasoit would have spoken Massachusett, which gave the word sachem to the English language. The reservation, about 90 miles south of Mount Katahdin (another Penobscot name) extends along the Penobscot River to include 15 towns and several unincorporated territories. A force of Mohegans and Connecticut militia captured Narragansett sachem Canonchet a few days after the destruction of Providence Plantations, while a force of Plymouth militia and Wampanoags hunted down Metacomet. Along New Englands coast the Wampanoag people spoke the ancient Massachusett language. Dawnland Voices, An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England edited by Soibhan Senier. With 26 different Miqmaq reserves, they chose the easiest to read and write. By 1636, Cononicus, sachem of the Narragansett tribe, had granted Williams land along the Seekonk River. The languages, all Algonquian, were all oral and they changed over time.