A group of Narragansett people greeted them with a phrase every Rhode Island schoolchild knows: What cheer, Netop?. Wpanak is an Algonquian dialect so closely related to Narragansett that speakers could once make themselves understood to one another. To install click the Add extension button. The case was being retried in the summer of 2008. From 1935-6, a newspaper headed by the Narragansett chief, Princess Red Wing (whos birth name was Mary E. Glasko), began to circulate among the Narragansett community. Proceedings of the Worcester Society of Antiquity. Although writing the Narragansett language did exist in the past, tribal members trying to actively bring it back were also not exclusive to it. Harvard College published the Indian Bible in 1663. Narragansett Bay is a bay and estuary on the north side of Rhode Island Sound. One Narragansett man suffered a broken leg in the confrontation. 190-197. Charles Shay By Romain Brget Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95721834. The Narragansetts have undertaken efforts to review tribal rolls and reassess applications for membership, like numerous other tribes in the 21st century.