PROVIDENCE ― The leader of the Narragansett Indian Tribe is objecting to the transfer of 255 acres in Bristol to a Pokanoket tribal trust and to the purchase of nearly 40 acres in Tiverton by ...

Brown University transferred some 255 acres of land it owned in Bristol to a trust associated with the Pokanoket Tribe. That came after a separate land trust associated with another indigenous group, ...

One entrance of the wetu looks out toward the back of Ashawaug Farm and its woods, while the other opens up to a meadow overlooking a corn field, the stalks still high even after they’d been harvested ...

Cassius Spears, who owns the farm and is a member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe, built the wetu — a traditional style of dwelling — to help show what the village of Ashaway, which comes ...