Brown University has transferred ownership of a portion of its land in Bristol, Rhode Island, to a preservation trust established by the Pokanoket Indian Tribe. The move ensures that access to the land and waters extends to tribes and Native peoples of the region for whom the land has significance.
Brown University has transferred ownership of a portion of its land in Bristol, Rhode Island, to a preservation trust established by the Pokanoket Indian Tribe .
The land is the ancestral home of Metacom — also known as King Philip — the leader of the Pokanoket people. It's also the site of his 1676 death during King Philip's War, a bloody conflict between tribes and European settlers. The Pokanoket Nation said the encampment was aimed at reclaiming the tribe's ancestral home in Bristol, which contains spiritually important sites. The tribe is not federally recognized, but its members say they are descended from the tribe that helped the pilgrims and its leader, Massasoit, father of Metacom.
The university plans to begin moving the museum collection in the fall of 2025 and anticipates vacating the museum facilities on the Mount Hope property by the summer of 2026."The significance of this land goes back to time immemorial for our people," she said in a statement Monday to The Boston Globe."For the first time in over 340 years, we unlocked the gates to the property for ourselves and walked onto our land. That is significant. It is historical.
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