At the Pilgrim's first Thanksgiving in 1621, chief among the
honored guests was Massasoit, the sachem of the Wampanoag.
Fifty-five years later, in 1676, colonial soldiers would walk
through Plymouth with their horrible spoils of war: the severed
head of Massasoits' son, King Philip, on a stake. Philip had just
been shot at the end of a bloody conflict in which at least 10
percent of the colonists had been killed and half their towns
destroyed. The Native Americans suffered even more in their pivotal
struggle against the English. Less than a generation after King
Philip's death, devastated by disease and famine and thousands
slain or sold into slavery, the native peoples of New England were
all but gone. Three hundred years later, their fight for freedom is
all but erased from the history books.
King Philip's Indian War provides insight into a dark and
formative period of America's past, being both an in-depth history
and a guide to the sites where the great ambushes, raids, and
bloody battles took place. What the colonists learned from the
native warriors in the swamps and woods of New England would prove
invaluable in their own fight for freedom 100 years later, and the
colonist's retaliation for the war would become the model for how
Americans would treat Native Americans for the next three
centuries.
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