video: Pokanoket Tribe Sets up Encampment in Bristol to Claim Land From Brown
Monday, August 21, 2017
The Pokanoket Tribe has established an encampment titled the Po Metacom Camp at Potumtuk in an attempt to reclaim the land from Brown University. Brown asserts its ownership of the land.
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“We as aboriginal citizens have been denied our birthright to our family’s land, our sovereignty rights, therefore states and powerful organizations have held our wealth over and over to the point that they believe it is their natural gift and natural right to have our property,” said Sagamore William (Po Wauipi Neimpaug) Guy Pokanoket Tribe/Pokanoket Nation.
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Brown owns approximately 375 acres of land in Bristol, which was donated in parcels over time to the University by the Haffenreffer family beginning in the 1950s. The property ownership was legally transferred to Brown, and the University has been a positive steward of the land. Brown has maintained clear legal title for more than 60 years, the University asserted in a statement issued on Sunday.
The Tribe will be accepting Public Support in the form of camping supplies and through online donations.
The Land
According to the Tribe, Brown does not have an Aboriginal Title to the land since King Philip’s ancestral line has never signed over their right to the land.
The tribe has used the law and legal avenues to make known their legal standing and rightful land ownership of the Pokanoket Nation.
Response to their communications has been delayed for too long, claims the tribe.
"The University upholds the rights of individuals to assemble peaceably to express their views, provided that their actions do not infringe upon the rights of others — including the free exchange of ideas — or interfere with the rights of others to take part in the activities of Brown’s academic community and campus life. Our interest is in the safety of those assembled," said Brown in its statement.
In 2015 the Pokanoket Tribe raised the Pokanoket Flag declaring their right to the land.
The Tribe has a lawsuit seeking pending against the town of Bristol and the State of Rhode Island and has put together Public and Constructive Notices to the town of Bristol.
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