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Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts - Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country (Hardcover)
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Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts - Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country (Hardcover)
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Ninigret (c. 1600-1676) was a sachem of the Niantic and
Narragansett Indians of what is now Rhode Island from the mid-1630s
through the mid-1670s. For Ninigret and his contemporaries, Indian
Country and New England were multipolar political worlds shaped by
ever-shifting intertribal rivalries. In the first biography of
Ninigret, Julie A. Fisher and David J. Silverman assert that he was
the most influential Indian leader of his era in southern New
England. As such, he was a key to the balance of power in both
Indian-colonial and intertribal relations.Ninigret was at the
center of almost every major development involving southern New
England Indians between the Pequot War of 1636-37 and King Philip's
War of 1675-76. He led the Narragansetts' campaign to become the
region's major power, including a decades-long war against the
Mohegans led by Uncas, Ninigret's archrival. To offset growing
English power, Ninigret formed long-distance alliances with the
powerful Mohawks of the Iroquois League and the Pocumtucks of the
Connecticut River Valley. Over the course of Ninigret's life,
English officials repeatedly charged him with plotting to organize
a coalition of tribes and even the Dutch to roll back English
settlement. Ironically, though, he refused to take up arms against
the English in King Philip's War. Ninigret died at the end of the
war, having guided his people through one of the most tumultuous
chapters of the colonial era.
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