
Brown University Transfers 225 Acres of Land to Pokanoket Tribe in Rhode Island
November 26, 2024 | Source: Boston.com | by Molly Farrar
Brown University transferred 225 acres in Bristol, Rhode Island to a preservation trust established by the Pokanoket Tribe, an Indigenous tribe with historic and cultural ties to the property.
Brown acquired a 375-acre property in 1955 at Mount Hope, where the university has its Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology and an outing center. The museum will be moved to Providence, the Ivy League university said.
Mount Hope is also the ancestral home of Metacom, a leader of the Pokanoket also known as King Philip who died there during King Philip’s War in 1676. Metacom was the chief sachem of the Wampanoag when the English purchased their land in the 1670s.