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Monadnock Hiker
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 Posted - June 30 2020 : 2:18:22 PM
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Uncas, Sachem and Statesman
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The early 1600s was a critical time of change for Connecticut tribes. The pressure from rapidly expanding European settlements created competition for land and resources, while disease was decimating Indian populations at an alarming rate. Within the Pequot Tribe at that time, a dispute erupted between the Pequot Sachem (head chief) Sassacus and Uncas. - Uncas left with his followers, calling themselves Mohegan, or Wolf People, like their ancestors. - Each tribe had its own idea of how to deal with European conflicts.
Uncas (1598-1683) became Sachem of the Mohegan Tribe, which favored collaboration with the English. The Pequots under Sassacus chose to fight them, with other local tribes taking sides. Seeing the loss brought on by continued fighting, Uncas befriended the European invaders. This controversial decision left Uncas and the Mohegans in an uneasy alliance with the English in an ensuing war with the Pequots. But staying true to their word, the Mohegans helped the English defeat the Pequots.
Uncas settled his people in a village at Shantok, which the Tribe defended from a Narragansett invasion sparked by European as well as Indian conflicts. Finally, the Mohegan Tribe's affiliation with the English kept its people relatively safe during King Philip's war and beyond.
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - July 01 2020 : 07:50:48 AM
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| That's a very interesting web site! |
"Les deux pieds contre la muraille et la tete sous le robinet" |
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Monadnock Hiker
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Posted - July 01 2020 : 2:45:28 PM
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The Pequot War (1637-1638)
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The first of the many wars between whites and Indians was fought in 1637 between the Pequots and New England settlers. - The Pequots were a warlike tribe centered along the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut. By 1630, under their chief, Sassacus, they had pushed west to the Connecticut R. - There they had numerous quarrels with colonists, culminating in the murder by the Pequots of a trader, John Oldham, on July 20, 1636.
On Aug. 24 Gov. John Endicott of Massachusetts Bay Colony organized a military force to punish the Indians, and on May 26, 1637, the first battle of the Pequot War took place when the New Englanders, under John Mason and John Underhill, attacked the Pequot stronghold near present-day New Haven, Conn. - The Indian forts were burned and about 500 men, women, and children were killed. - The survivors fled in small groups. - One group, led by Sassacus, was caught near present day Fairfield, Conn., on July 28, and nearly all were killed or captured. - The captives were made slaves by the colonists or were sold in the West Indies. - Sassacus and the few who escaped with him were put to death by Mohawk Indians. - The few remaining Pequots were scattered among other southern New England tribes. |
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - July 02 2020 : 07:16:58 AM
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| It seems that at all of the early settlements there were some really nasty relations between the Amerindians and the colonists. Maybe the Dutch might have been an exception, but I am not sure. |
"Les deux pieds contre la muraille et la tete sous le robinet" |
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Monadnock Hiker
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Posted - July 02 2020 : 08:24:07 AM
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| When you actually look into some of what REALLY happened - it's something that's been either skimmed over or simply not been taught in schools. - But then again, it's the victors who write "their view of history" ... First time I've heard of the "holy & religious" colonists keeping slaves ... THAT hasn't been taught. |
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