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Mar 10, 2010 · When the first European settlers arrived in the region around Narragansett Bay (present-day Rhode Island) around 1635, they encountered a number of Indigenous peoples, including the...
- Missy Sullivan
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When Roger Williams fled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in l636 to found a settlement he named Providence in a region that became Rhode Island, he was befriended there by the dominant Narragansett Native American tribe and their great sachem Canonicus.
The first documented contact with the Indians of Rhode Island took place in 1524 when Giovanni de Verrazano visited Narragansett Bay and described a large Indian population, living by agriculture and hunting, and organized under powerful “kings.”
The Narragansett tribe was recognized by the federal government in 1983 and controls the Narragansett Indian Reservation, 1,800 acres (7.3 km 2) of trust lands in Charlestown, Rhode Island. [4] A small portion of the tribe resides on or near the reservation, according to the 2000 U.S. Census . [ 5 ]
A commission of men from both colonies that year tried to establish a mutually acceptable border, but disagreements arose over whether the “Narragansett River” set as Connecticut’s eastern border in the 1662 charter referred to Narragansett Bay or the Pawcatuck River some twenty miles west.
The Great Swamp Massacre or the Great Swamp Fight was a crucial battle fought during King Philip's War between the colonial militia of New England and the Narragansett people in December 1675. It was fought near the villages of Kingston and West Kingston in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
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In 1636, the Narragansett were able to defeat the Pequot with the help of the English. The Mohegans, who were a branch of the Pequot, later captured the chief sachem of the Narragansetts,...
