Princess Red Wing and Ernest Hazard were the paper's founders and editors.
The newspaper came about because of the Narragansett people's need to retain their history and cultural identity in the wake of the Indian Reorganization Act.
[1] In many of the paper's editorials, Princess Red Wing invokes the Narragansett people's pride,[2] often in reply to claims against their ancestry and purity during their detribalization by the state of Rhode Island in the 1880s.
[4] The name The Narragansett Dawn was chosen at a tribal meeting on December 4, 1934.
Its meaning is broken down as follows: The cover also bears the official seal of the Narragansett Indian Tribe.