Wampanoag

Metacom succeeded his father in 1662 and reacted against the European settlers' continued encroaching onto Wampanoag lands. At Taunton in 1671, he was humiliated when colonists forced him to sign a new peace agreement that included the surrender of Indian guns. King Philip's War started when officials in Plymouth Colony hanged three Wampanoags in 1675 for the murder of a Christianized Indian, Metacom's alliance launched a united assault on colonial towns throughout the…

King Philip’s War: King Philip’s war refers to the series of conflicts between the English colonies and the Wampanoag tribe. Native American leader, Metacom, was known to the English as King Philip. In 1675, three Wampanoags were executed by Plymouth officials. The natives retaliated by murdering English colonists. Metacom led the Wampanoags and their allies in war against Plymouth. Other colonies and tribes soon joined the fight and it became all out war. Victory was won after the colonies…

rising. When the English first came, the Native Americans taught the English how to grow crops. The British were treating the Native Americans when it came down to trade. Quaker bought land from the Indians and treated them fairly. William Penn converted to Quakerism. William Penn had a great relationship with the Indians. Penn worked to respect the natives and their cultural. Culturally, The Native Americans were in the way of the southern colonies. They pushed the Native Americans westwards.…

separated America from England, for the colonists could refer to themselves as Americans, and no longer British colonists in America, whom were of a different identity with contrasting ideas, beliefs, and lifestyle, living in a colony of a dominant empire, whereas living in the “headquarters” of a dominant empire. During the 17th and 18th centuries, New England’s Indian affairs and its Puritan religion remained and stayed the same, while England’s amount of control and the colonists’ thoughts on…

were amazed by their weapons. Even so they tested the settler's strength whenever they could. Settlers sometime stole corn from the Indians and Indians sometime stole tools from the English. Such theft occasionally led to fighting back which ended in the loss of life on both sides. Plymouth was settled in the lands of the Wampanoag nation Algonquian Indians in southeastern Massachusetts. The chief of the Wampanoag was named Massasoit. Several years before the Pilgrim's landing the Wampanoag…

and the seizure of their lands. Interactions between the English and the Wampanoag, an indigenous nation whose members inhabit the eastern coast of what is now considered New England, can be categorized in this general pattern. During the sixteenth century, the Wampanoag were the focus of English Puritan missionaries’ conversion efforts, who hoped to save the souls of the Wampanoag and, in doing so, recreate them with respect to the Puritan imagining of civilization.…

farther inland, which led to a strained relationship with the Pequots. The English settlers and their native allies massacred a Pequot town and killed many innocent people. Eventually, the English destroyed the Pequots and gained their land, which eventually became a part of Connecticut and New Haven. As of a result of this conflict, many natives died or were captured and the English colonies grew even more powerful through the absorption of more land. King Philip’s War: King Philip’s War…

Patwin is the native language of the Wintun people. Ancestors of these people arrived in Central Valley and Northern California around 1400 BCE. The Patwin had similar language with the Nomlaki and Wintu. The Patwin are the most southern of these groups and are sometimes called the Southern Wintun. (Patwin) The Patwin tribe were broken into two groups; the Hill Patwin that lived in the coastal ranges and the River Patwin that resided in the Sacramento Valley. (Quail) These people like most…

the monarchy was restored, the ANglican Church came back, and Charles II gave Carolina to English supporters Pequot War-the Pequot Indians and New Netherland controlled the fur trade and wampum together. in 1637, the settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts attacked a Pequot village. the Pequot resistance was over at the end of 1637 King Philip’s War- In 1657, three Wampanoag indians were executed and their leader King Philip was almost arrested for the death of a Christian Indian. Later, more…

In the early 1600’s a disease, known as the “Smallpox” wiped out nearly all Native Americans that lived in what we now know as Massachusetts. Smallpox quickly contaminated 90% of Native Americans due to the fact that they had no immunity to such diseases; the Smallpox disease played a major role in decreasing the population. In 1621 the Pilgrims, and Wampanoag tribe held the first Thanksgiving feast; which went on for about 3 days. The Pilgrims, and the Wampanoag Tribe decided to have the feast…