Narragansett (tribe)
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- For other uses of the term, see Narragansett.
The museum of the Nahahiganseck is the Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum in Exeter, Rhode Island. The school for the Nahahiganseck children is the Nuweetooun School at the same museum.
The word "Narragansett" means, literally, "at the small, narrow point," or "the people of the small, narrow point." Some members still speak the original Algonquian language although it had died out and was only partially reclaimed from books in the early 20th century.
Many members of the Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island (the official name used by the Bureau of Indian Affairs circa 2003) reside on or near the Narragansett Indian Tribe reservation (population 60, according to the 2000 U.S. Census), land held in trust by the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and located in the Town of Charlestown, Rhode Island.
On July 14, 2003 Rhode Island state police raided a tribe-run smoke shop on the Charlestown reservation, the culmination of an ongoing dispute between the tribe and state over the tribe's right to sell tax-free cigarettes. In 2005 the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals declared the police action a violation of the tribe's sovereignty.
The Narragansett Tribe is busy in negotations with the General Assembly to get a casino built on their land. Current Rhode Island Law declares all non-state run lotteries illegal.
President George W. Bush and his father former President George H. W. Bush may have Narrangansett ancestry.[link]
See also
- Massasoit, sachem of the Pokanoket and Wampanoag tribes.
- King Philip's War fought by English colonists against sachem Metacomet.
External links
- [Narragansett Indian Tribe Official Site]
- [Narragansett Language information]
- [Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett page from Ethnologue website]
- [Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum]
- [Nuweetooun School]
- [Narrangansett ancestors of Bush family]
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