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Weybosset Street
Weybosset is a Narragansett term for a river crossing where three trails met. There is evidence that the street in downtown Providence today was named Weybosset around 1806.
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Canonicus Memorial, North Burial Ground
In the same year that the Code of Indian Offenses was written into legislation restricting religious and cultural ceremonies of Native American people, The RI Historical Society had a ceremony in Providence erecting a boulder dedicated to Narragansett leader Sachem Canonicus. https://rifootprints.com/2012/02/29/rediscovering-native-american-places-of-memory/ -
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Brown University has inextricable ties to Native American history. About 45% of the collection at the Haffenreffer Museum are of Native American origin. The University is currently searching a new home for the museum in effort to make it more public. The John Carter Brown library has a large collection of Native North American literature.
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Tockwotton on the Waterfront
The elderly care facility in East Providence founded in 1856 as a small, one-building site intended as a care facility for aged women. Renamed in 1977, "the word Tockwotton is a Native American term that means, “a steep ascent to be climbed.” Before Tockwotton Home was built in 1864, the surrounding land was predominantly bluffs overlooking the harbor, therefore the name Tockwotton was the perfect fit for its location."
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Still Here
Designed by Baltimore based artist, Gaia depicts Narragansett tribe member Lynsea Montanari holding an image of Princess Red Wing (member of the Narragansett and Wampanoag tribes). Lynsea Montanari is an educator at the Tomaquag Museum in Exteter, RI, a museum that Princess Red Wing founded 60 years ago.
https://www.browndailyherald.com/2018/09/12/debuted-mural-highlights-narragansett-tribe/