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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. In 2009 the United States Supreme Court ruled against their request that the Department of the Interior take land into trust which they had acquired in 1991.
