Narragansett

While the amount of statistics is fairly slim, there is general consensus that most Americans cannot in most cases list all fifty states. We can go even further by assuming that the smaller the state or the less “relevant” it is in national affairs, the lesser the chances are that people will know it. Rhode Island is such a state. It is small geographically, unrepresentative of the national racial diversity we observe here in the United States, and has an economy which barely gives the state any…

Rowlandson, which states; In 1650 her Puritan family left England only to eventually settle in the notorious frontier town of Lancaster. The colonial woman’s story takes a dramatic turn when she and her children are among those taken in a raid by the Narragansett and Nipmuck tribes during the King Philip’s War. The article goes on to say, thanks to the ransom paid by a leader of her community John Hoar she was released to her family and neighbors at Redemption Rock, a now preserved national…

Since 1494 the Native Americans have been called savages and were treated unjustly by the Europeans. The Europeans assumed that they could go to America and take what they wanted, without caring whom was already living on the land. The Europeans also thought that they were superior over the Native Americans. The Europeans were much more advanced with their weapons compared to the Native Americans, and the Native Americans were frightened by the loud noises that the weapons created and the…

The documentary We Shall Remain- After the Mayflower presented contact and interactions between settlers and Native Americans in the early periods of English colonization. It used a familiar event; the Mayflower and the establishment of Plymouth as a colonial settlement to bring forth the information in a new way. Right from the beginning of the film, it clearly and quite drastically separated itself from other documentaries of its type. While other documentaries, and many have done so, would…

Winthrop’s “A Model of a Christian Charity” his entry dated January 11th 1636, describes someone 's faith as an infection, “The reason was because he has drawn above twenty persons to his opinion and they were intended to erect a plantation about the Narragansett Bay, from where the infection would easily spread into these churches (the people being many of them much taken with apprehension of Godliness”. This passage explains how someone is trying to teach his religious opinion and…

Massacre at mystic (contextualization) The Massacre at Mystic was the first major battle between the Native Americans and the Europeans. The context of this event shows how the Europeans and the Native Americans fought over the land that would soon become America. This fighting took place on a massive scale, but the first example of this brutality was the Massacre at Mystic. The colonization of the New World saw an unprecedented migration of people, known as the “Great Migration”. Many…

You arrive to Point Judith with your large beach bag filled with a bathing suit, sunscreen, a change of clothes, a sandwich or two, a few bottles of water and you’re ready to go. You parade up to the stand where you have to make a decision: traditional or hi-speed? With traditional it’s only twenty two dollars for a round trip, while hi-speed is thirty five dollars. You have to make a decision fast because the next ferry leaves in five minutes and you don’t want to miss it because then you’ll…

programs from 2:45 to 6pm each afternoon. Dozens of partnering organizations were asked to develop programs aligned with schools’ instructional calendar. The initiative brought together a huge variety of participants. Students have been taken out on Narragansett Bay to learn about environmental efforts, and to the Humane Society to take care of animals. Arts and community-based projects have been…

Within the delicate brushstrokes of the artist lies an image of vitality and beauty, comprising the portrait of one young and misguided individual. Driven by his desire to fulfill his lustful temptations, he evolves, the man in the frame, into an individual so vile one cannot stand near without inhaling his moral corruption. Physically, the man of the portrait, Dorian Gray, as having sold his soul to retain his current health and beauty, remains ageless and pristine as he continues in the…

day New England and English colonists and their Indian allies in 1675 to 1678. King Philips war was located in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maine. It lasted from June 1675 to August 1678 . King Philips war was known as the “Great Narragansett”, according to King Philip’s war by Jason W. Warren. It was also known as the bloodiest war per capita. According to King.com,” King Philips war begins with a band of Wampanoag warriors raid the border settlement of Swanese, Massachusetts,…