Narragansett people
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The Narragansett people are an Algonquian American Indian tribe from Rhode Island. Today, Narragansett people are enrolled in the federally recognized Narragansett Indian Tribe. They gained federal recognition in 1983.
Roger Williams and the Narragansetts, a 19th-century engraving after a painting by A. H. Wray
The Narragansett Indian Church in Charlestown was founded in the 1740s. This building was constructed in 1859 to replace the one that had burned down.
20 ft (6.1 m) high sculpture of Enishkeetompauog Narragansett in Sprague Park, Narragansett, Rhode Island. Among the tribal leaders who had attended the 1982 dedication were Princess Red Wing and Roaring Bull, who was the last traditional war chief of the Narragansett Tribe.
Samuel Gorton
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Samuel Gorton (1593–1677) was an early settler and civic leader of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and President of the towns of Providence and Warwick. He had strong religious beliefs which differed from Puritan theology and was very outspoken, and he became the leader of a small sect known as Gortonians, Gortonists, or Gortonites. As a result, he was frequently in trouble with the civil and church authorities in the New England colonies.
Samuel Gorton governor's medallion
19th century depiction of Gorton on trial in Portsmouth
Attack on Shawomet by soldiers from Massachusetts in 1643 from a 19th-century history of the United States
Warwick was destroyed in 1676 during King Philip's War.