"The Name Of War" - Jill Lepore
In the developments in the book, Lepore clearly states that “King Phillip’s War was the defining moment” in early American history. What she means is that the war was mainly fought on the basis of the need to maintain cultural identity. The Native Americans fought hard to ensure that they kept their Indian ways of lives while the English colonialists also wanted to introduce their new ways of lives and make allies with the Indians. The English colonist majorly developed their American identity before and after the wars through triangulating between their English cultural modes of living and the Indian experiences.
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It implied that they were losing their identity to the English settlers and the Indians did not want any of their ways of living to be tossed away. It is because the English slowly intruded into the native lands of the Indians as ways of converting most of them to adopt the English culture in the society (Lepore 87). The English had the idea that the Indians called themselves the Native Americans but they did not own the land to give themselves that title. It is because they had not developed the land in question. It was the process of intruding the Indian lands and trying to convert the Indians to adopt the English ways of lives that made the Indians to strongly hold the opinion that their lives and cultural identity were under immense threat.
It is important to state that the English colonists viewed the Indians as largely helpless people who they almost regarded as sub-human. Another issue that led to the outbreak of the war was the occurrence of the English diseases that regularly killed the Native Americans. The Indians thought that they had to struggle to keep their identities since the constant killing of the people with the English diseases would ultimately make them lose their identities entirely. The thought of the Indians being helpless began to become reality to the Indians with the loss they were encountering from the
In the developments in the book, Lepore clearly states that “King Phillip’s War was the defining moment” in early American history. What she means is that the war was mainly fought on the basis of the need to maintain cultural identity. The Native Americans fought hard to ensure that they kept their Indian ways of lives while the English colonialists also wanted to introduce their new ways of lives and make allies with the Indians. The English colonist majorly developed their American identity before and after the wars through triangulating between their English cultural modes of living and the Indian experiences.
It is imperative to state that the English colonists mainly used their Indian experiences as a way …show more content…
It implied that they were losing their identity to the English settlers and the Indians did not want any of their ways of living to be tossed away. It is because the English slowly intruded into the native lands of the Indians as ways of converting most of them to adopt the English culture in the society (Lepore 87). The English had the idea that the Indians called themselves the Native Americans but they did not own the land to give themselves that title. It is because they had not developed the land in question. It was the process of intruding the Indian lands and trying to convert the Indians to adopt the English ways of lives that made the Indians to strongly hold the opinion that their lives and cultural identity were under immense threat.
It is important to state that the English colonists viewed the Indians as largely helpless people who they almost regarded as sub-human. Another issue that led to the outbreak of the war was the occurrence of the English diseases that regularly killed the Native Americans. The Indians thought that they had to struggle to keep their identities since the constant killing of the people with the English diseases would ultimately make them lose their identities entirely. The thought of the Indians being helpless began to become reality to the Indians with the loss they were encountering from the