2025 CNAIS concentrator Nkéke Harris’s capstone project critically reexamined Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative through a Narragansett lens, challenging the dominant colonial narrative embedded in the captivity genre. By deconstructing Rowlandson’s account—a foundational text often taught as historical truth—their project exposed how such narratives were weaponized to justify the violence, displacement, and genocide of Indigenous peoples. Nkéke’s work interrogated how these early texts functioned as propaganda, shaping settler identity while dehumanizing Native communities, and draws connections to the continued use of narrative as a tool of oppression against Indigenous peoples globally today, offering a decolonial re-framing rooted in Indigenous sovereignty and truth-telling.