The Narragansett land claim was one of the first litigations of aboriginal title in the United States in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark...
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recognized Narragansett Indian Tribe. They gained federal recognition in 1983. The tribe was nearly landless for most of the 20th century but acquired land in...
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Nonintercourse Act (section Land claims litigation)
the tribe's behalf claiming 60% of Maine, Congress approved an $81.5 million settlement. In the case of the Narragansett land claim (D.R.I. 1976), Congress...
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Joint Tribal Council of the Passamaquoddy Tribe v. Morton (redirect from Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act)
Andrus—with whom Tureen had previously negotiated the settlement to the Narragansett land claim in Rhode Island. Tureen and Jankel—along with Donald Perkins, a...
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King Philip's War (redirect from Narragansett War)
the Narragansetts' main fort in the Great Swamp Fight. An estimated 600 Narragansetts were killed, and their coalition was taken over by Narragansett sachem...
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The Montauk Point land claim was a series of three lawsuits brought by Chief Wyandank Pharaoh, nephew of the Stephen Talkhouse who died in the same year...
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Narragansett Park was an American race track for Thoroughbred horse racing in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. On May 18, 1934, Rhode Island voters approved a...
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Providence Plantations. The land was first owned by the Narragansett Indians, which led to the name of the town of Narragansett, Rhode Island. European settlement...
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nearly all its land area is on the mainland. Providence is its capital and most populous city. Native Americans lived around Narragansett Bay before English...
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aboriginal title in the state. Other tribes had pending land claims. The Passamaquoddy (1975), Narragansett I and II (1976), and Mohegan (1980, 1982) cases occurred...
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Washington County, Rhode Island (redirect from Narragansett Country)
tribe the Niantics, both of whom lived in the area. Early land purchases in the Narragansett Country were effected by settlers after the establishment...
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residents of New Shoreham, Rhode Island, voted to take Eastern Niantic-Narragansett land on the grounds that "the native Indians [are] extinct in [this] Town...
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Aboriginal title in the United States (redirect from Indian land claims)
land claims were explicitly barred from Claims Courts by statute. The Indian Claims Commission Act of 1946 (ICCA) created forum of Indian land claims...
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Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes. The war concluded with the decisive defeat of the...
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Atherton Trading Company (category Narragansett, Rhode Island)
included Josiah Winslow, John Brown and Thomas Willet. Their land speculation in the Narragansett area of Rhode Island was at the expense of the Native American...
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Philip's War. New York: MacMillan. pp. 130–132. Tribe, Narragansett. "Narragansett History". Narragansett Indian Nation Website. Archived from the original...
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Penobscot (section Land claims)
of America. In this work, Williams explained that the language of the Narragansett people (and tribes they'd overtaken or forced into submission) used a...
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Richard Smith (1596–1666) was the first European settler in the Narragansett country (later Washington County, Rhode Island) in the Colony of Rhode Island...
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between Florida and New Brunswick in 1524, including New York Bay and Narragansett Bay. Verrazzano was born in Val di Greve, south of Florence, the capital...
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than a year, they moved to Providence Plantation at the head of the Narragansett Bay at the request of Roger Williams. In about 1638, they moved once...
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Quashaamit (section Land disputes and transfers)
Providence to assert his right to land in what is now northern Rhode Island, and the town agreed to investigate his claim with the Indians in the area, and...
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Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut (redirect from Mohegan Nation (Connecticut) Land Claim Settlement Act)
passed the Mohegan Nation (Connecticut) Land Claim Settlement Act, which authorized the US to take 800 acres of land into trust for the tribe for use as its...
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edu. 2011. Retrieved 2021-03-12. Pastore, Christopher. Between Land and Sea: Narragansett Bay and the Transformation of the New England Coast pp.1-5 "History...
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dozen Massachusett and Narragansett descendants of the Ponkapoag praying town lived in what is now Canton. Several organizations claim descent from historical...
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Algonquian peoples include and have included historical populations in: Narragansett of Rhode Island, United States Mohegan of Connecticut, United States...
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had no right to grant title to Indian land without paying for it. He interacted extensively with the Narragansett and Wampanoag tribes as a missionary...
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Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (redirect from Wampanoag-Aquinnah Trust Land)
tribe received official recognition in 1987, the same year that their land claim on Martha's Vineyard was settled by an act of Congress, with agreement...
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Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe (section Land)
[citation needed] The placename comes from the name of a 17th-century Narragansett sachem (leader). The Wampanoag are an Algonquian language-speaking Native...
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Oneco (section 1703 land claims case)
England settlers. In 1676, Oneco joined in the execution of Canonchet, the Narragansett commander who had led the defense of the great swamp fortress. After...
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The Narragansett Pier Railroad (reporting mark NAP) was a railroad in southern Rhode Island, running 8.5 miles (13.7 km) from West Kingston to Narragansett...
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