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On College Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, stands a large statue of Roger Williams extending his hand in benediction over the City of Providence. An inscription on the monument's base reads: "Here reposes dust from the grave of Roger Williams." The steeple of the First Baptist Church in America, the congregation that Williams gathered, is visible below. |
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Narragansett Tribe members dance an intertribal dance at their 327th Annual Powwow, August 11, 2002. Their Chief Sachem, Matthew Seventh Hawk Thomas, dances in the inner circle near the fire pit. The fire was lit by Medicine Man Lloyd G. Running Wolf Wilcox.
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A terse and barely-legible marker stands at the entrance to the Great Swamp in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, where the Great Swamp Fight against the Narragansett Tribe occurred in 1675. The marker reads: "Three-quarters of a mile to the southward on an island in the Great Swamp the Narragansett Indians were decisively defeated by the united forces of the Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and Plymouth colonies, Sunday, December 19, 1675."
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At the Narragansett Tribe's Annual Powwow in 2002, members of the Native Peoples' music group Wakeby Lake from Mashpee, Massachusetts, perform a song for dancing.
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The Narragansett Indian Church in Charlestown, Rhode Island. On the flagpole, the Narragansett tribal flag hangs above a United States flag with a native symbol superimposed.
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The Royal Burying Ground of the Narragansett Tribe in the woods of Charlestown, Rhode Island. The inscription on the tombstone in the center reads: "This tablet is erected and this spot of ground consecrated by the State of Rhode Island to mark the place which Indian tradition identifies as the Royal Burying Ground of the Narragansett Tribe and in recognition of the kindness and hospitality of this once powerful Nation to the founders of this State."
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This 4.5 acre park in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, occupies the land that the Narragansett Tribe deeded to Roger Williams in 1636 to use for the original settlement of Providence. Now part of the Roger Williams National Memorial, it has six interpretive markers.
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At the Roger Williams National Memorial in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, this garden encloses the freshwater spring around which Williams made his settlement in 1636. Williams' house was located where the brick building stands in the background across the street.
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The exterior of the current meetinghouse of the First Baptist Church in America, which was gathered by Roger Williams in 1638. This meetinghouse was erected in 1774 during the pastorate of the church's first called minister, The Reverend James Manning, also the first president of Brown University, "For the publick Worship of Almighty GOD, and also for holding Commencement in." Brown's college commencement still begins in this meetinghouse.
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This vault in Rhode Island's State Capitol Building in Providence, Rhode Island, contains the original Charter of the Colony of Rhode Island, granted to Roger Williams by England's King Charles I in 1663.
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