Tags: Ethnic Group.
This article is about the Native American nation. For the university see Quinnipiac University.The Quinnipiac—rarely spelled Quinnipiack—is the English name for the Eansketambawg (meaning “original people”; c.f. Ojibwe: Anishinaabeg and Blackfoot: Niitsítapi) a Native American nation of the Algonquian family who inhabited the Wampanoki (i.e. “Dawnland”; c.f. Ojibwe: Waabanaki Abenaki: Wabanakiyik) region including present-day Connecticut.