Brown University Transfers Ownership of a Portion of its Land to Local Indian Tribe
“The land is the ancestral home of Metacom — also known as King Philip — the leader of the Pokanoket people.”
This news will surely please Senator Elizabeth Warren.
WJAR News reports:
Brown University transfers ownership of a portion of its land to Pokanoket Indian Tribe
Brown University has transferred ownership of a portion of its land in Bristol, Rhode Island, to a preservation trust established by the Pokanoket Indian Tribe.
The move ensures that access to the land and waters extends to tribes and Native peoples of the region for whom the land has significance, according to the university, which finalized the transfer last month.
The land is the ancestral home of Metacom — also known as King Philip — the leader of the Pokanoket people. It’s also the site of his 1676 death during King Philip’s War, a bloody conflict between tribes and European settlers.
In August 2017, members of the tribe and their supporters set up an encampment at the university, saying the land was illegally taken from them hundreds of years ago.
The Pokanoket Nation said the encampment was aimed at reclaiming the tribe’s ancestral home in Bristol, which contains spiritually important sites. The tribe is not federally recognized, but its members say they are descended from the tribe that helped the pilgrims and its leader, Massasoit, father of Metacom.
The Ivy League university said at the time that the land was donated decades earlier and that it had owned the legal title for more than 60 years.
A month after the encampment began the school reached an agreement acknowledging that the land is historically Pokanoket.
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As far as I’m concerned they’re still hypocrites until they give all their land back. How does some abstract “acknowledgement” that they’re occupying stolen land grant them the moral authority to continue occupying it?
Surely they can find some land that has never been stolen from anyone to occupy? Right?
Maybe in Antarctica?
Bottom of the ocean perhaps?
Donated as long as it doesn’t interfere with tuition and revenue bearing activities
Meanwhile, now’s the time for all of us to put pressure on our virtue-signaling alma maters (assuming one’s is), nagging them with, “If Brown can do it, when are you going to do it?”
I got it…maybe they can get Elon to give them a ride to the moon. I don’t think that’s been stolen from anyone yet.
You don’t think the NAZIs that have been there since the 40s will consider it lunar appropriation?
I wonder why the tribe is not federally recognized.
My great-grandmother was Colorado Mountain Ute. I am registered with the Nation.
I was wondering the same thing. Anyone know?
King Philip of the Pokanoket “people” was also the Wampanoag sachem, and Wampanoags are recognized. I’m thinking the smaller “people” groups were in some way “wholly owned subsidiaries” of the larger tribe.
I’ve posted this before but I’ll post it again.
“We, at Oxford University, acknowledge that we operate on land that our Anglo-Norman forbears stole from the Danes, who stole it from the Mercians, who stole it from the Celts right after the Roman colonial government that oppressed the Celts for 400 years bugged out because Rome was being overrun by Goths, who were fleeing from the Huns, who were probably fleeing from the Mongols. So far as we can tell, the Japanese were not involved.”
My college “encouraged” the use of land acknowledgments.
Here is the one I used:
XXXXXXX College occupies a place that was originally the home of dozens of large mammals such as the mammoth, the mastodon, three species of camels, the glyptodon, the giant beaver, the short-faced bear, the dire wolf, the American cheetah, the ground sloth, the giant sloth, the sabre-tooth tiger, and the American horse. These animals were slaughtered to extinction by raiding groups of Asian immigrants who occupied North America. We honor the memory of the many species that would be here if they had not gone extinct to provide food and clothing for our predecessors.
Why not decolonize all property in the order and condition received ? Here in the Empire State, let’s roll up the roads, unbuild the houses, uproot nonnative flora and fauna and return property to the descendants of all previous owners, who will then return the land to the British, who will return the land to the Dutch, then the Lenape, then the bears, then the dinosaurs..
I don’t really care if Brown gives it’s entire land portfolio including the campus and buildings away to whoever. Go ahead.
If the land recipients have any kind of a sense of humor, they’ll build a casino and a discount smoke shop.
That’s why many of these previously unknown tribes get organized.
So if you lose a war, you get land back? My southern family is going to love this.