Tribe, Ivy League Brown debate law, morality

On Aug. 20 approximately 50 members of the Pokanoket nation, an indigenous group that claims ties to Colonial-era Wampanoag leader King Philip, or Metacom, occupied land in Bristol owned by Brown University. They are restricting public access and insisting the university relinquish ownership of the 375-acre plot, home to Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. The

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