Coming Home
Clip: Season 3 Episode 5 | 8m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Nearly 350 years since the Great Swamp Massacre, a unique effort to make amends.
Nearly 350 years ago, colonial settlers attacked a Narragansett village in the Great Swamp, near South Kingston, Rhode Island. The brutal event was a turning point in King Phillip’s War, a conflict that would spell disaster for many Native American tribes. Contributing reporter David Wright reports on a unique effort by the Rhode Island Historical Society to make amends.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Rhode Island PBS Weekly is a local public television program presented by Ocean State Media
Coming Home
Clip: Season 3 Episode 5 | 8m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Nearly 350 years ago, colonial settlers attacked a Narragansett village in the Great Swamp, near South Kingston, Rhode Island. The brutal event was a turning point in King Phillip’s War, a conflict that would spell disaster for many Native American tribes. Contributing reporter David Wright reports on a unique effort by the Rhode Island Historical Society to make amends.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
How to Watch Rhode Island PBS Weekly
Rhode Island PBS Weekly is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.
Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship
Video has Closed Captions
Clip: S3 Ep5 | 10m 7s | The hidden history of federal Indian boarding schools and its impact on the Narragansetts. (10m 7s)
Video has Closed Captions
Clip: S3 Ep5 | 3m 48s | High School students ask, “why is Indigenous history often eliminated from curricula?” (3m 48s)
Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship
- News and Public Affairs
Top journalists deliver compelling original analysis of the hour's headlines.
- News and Public Affairs
FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world.
Support for PBS provided by:
Rhode Island PBS Weekly is a local public television program presented by Ocean State Media