Narragansett people
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![Narragansett tribal territory](/Images/godic/202501/29/Tribal_Territories_Southern_New_England2950.png")
![Roger Williams and the Narragansetts - a 19th-century engraving, after a painting by A. H. Wray](/Images/godic/202501/29/Roger_Williams_and_Narragansetts2950.jpg")
![The Narragansett Indian Church in Charlestown was founded in the 1740s. Constructed in 1859, this building replaced one that burned down.[13]](/Images/godic/202501/29/NarragansettIndianChurch2950.jpg")
The Narragansett tribe are an Algonquian Native American tribe from Rhode Island. In 1983 descendants of tribal members identified in an 1880 treaty gained federal recognition as the Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island and re-established sovereignty.