In May, 2025, the Pokanoket Tribe added a link on their official website to a video produced by Tribe Member Winter Hawk that describes the history of Potumtuk, or The Lookout, on their historic land in Bristol, RI, to which they recently regained access after 340 years. Click here for the five-minute video. Quoting from the video, “This 255 acre property sits on Mount Hope Bay, most of it wooded and undeveloped with two miles of coastline. It is bounded on the east by the Bay, on the west and north by commercial and residential areas, and on the south by Mount Hope Farm. Potumtuk is of great cultural significance and importance to the Pokanoket Tribe whose goal is to maintain this historical, sacred and natural landscape to benefit the Pokanoket tribal people, the surrounding community and the State of Rhode Island. After King Philip’s War, the lands in Bristol were taken by Plymouth Colony and sold to four investors in 1680. In 1783, the lands were sold to William Bradford and owned by his family and the Church family until 1912. A small amusement park operated from the 1870s until about 1900. In two purchases, Rudolph Haffenreffer acquired 500 acres in 1912 and built the King Philip Museum that housed his extensive collection of Native American artifacts. In the 1950s, his family deeded 450 acres of land and the buildings to Brown University for educational purposes. After years of trying to negotiate with the University, the Pokanoket Tribe reached an agreement in 2017 to transfer the land back to the Tribe. In November of 2024, the tribe was able to walk freely on their land again after 340 years.”