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2024 Land Acknowledgement

WSP · Dec 19, 2024 ·

As an extension of our work last year on the Witness Stones project, owning our church’s history with slavery in colonial days, a task force has been working on creating a “land acknowledgement statement” to expand our understanding of how the church came to own our property, which was once the ancestral homeland of the Narragansett people.

To that effect, we have been studying the ancient culture of indigenous people, the impact of European colonialism on their people, particularly the local impact of King Philips War and the Pettaquamscutt Purchase. We will learn from the Tomaquag Museum the issues Narragansett people are facing today, as they reclaim their culture, foodways, etc.

We are excited to bring assistant director Silvermoon LaRose to Kingston Congregational Church for a morning of education, a luncheon catered by a local indigenous chef, and an afternoon workshop, guiding us to write the Land Acknowledgement statement and use policy. We invite you to participate and also extend an invite to friends and family who may also be interested in participating in either morning/afternoon session or both.

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Kingston Congregational Church Witness Stones Installation Ceremony

WSP · Jun 5, 2023 ·

 

State’s First Witness Stones to Be Installed June 5

WSP · May 17, 2023 ·

By Gino DeAngelis on ABC6.com on May 17, 2023

SOUTH KINGSTON, R.I. (WLNE) — Rhode Island’s first “Witness Stones” will be installed in a public ceremony on the grounds of the Kingston Congregational Church on June 5.

“The Witness Stones Project, Inc. is a non-profit, public history project, that works with local communities to restore the history and honor the humanity of
enslaved individuals who helped build our communities,” Reverend Dr. Jan Gregory-Charpentier said.

The two stones installed at the church will commemorate the lives of Cuffee and Sylvie Torrey. Continue reading.

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