Download or read book Sachems of the Narragansetts written by Howard M. Chapin and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ninigret Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts written by Julie A. Fisher and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book God War and Providence written by James A. Warren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: “a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses frustrated in their own time” (Booklist, starred review) as determined Narragansett Indians refused to back down and accept English authority. A devout Puritan minister in seventeenth-century New England, Roger Williams was also a social critic, diplomat, theologian, and politician who fervently believed in tolerance. Yet his orthodox brethren were convinced tolerance fostered anarchy and courted God’s wrath. Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and laid the foundations for the colony of Rhode Island as a place where Indian and English cultures could flourish side by side, in peace. As the seventeenth century wore on, a steadily deepening antagonism developed between an expansionist, aggressive Puritan culture and an increasingly vulnerable, politically divided Indian population. Indian tribes that had been at the center of the New England communities found themselves shunted off to the margins of the region. By the 1660s, all the major Indian peoples in southern New England had come to accept English authority, either tacitly or explicitly. All, except one: the Narragansetts. In God, War, and Providence “James A. Warren transforms what could have been merely a Pilgrim version of cowboys and Indians into a sharp study of cultural contrast…a well-researched cameo of early America” (The Wall Street Journal). He explores the remarkable and little-known story of the alliance between Roger Williams’s Rhode Island and the Narragansett Indians, and how they joined forces to retain their autonomy and their distinctive ways of life against Puritan encroachment. Deeply researched, “Warren’s well-written monograph contains a great deal of insight into the tactics of war on the frontier” (Library Journal) and serves as a telling precedent for white-Native American encounters along the North American frontier for the next 250 years.
Download or read book Sachems of the Narragansetts written by Howard M. Chapin and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Narragansett planters written by Edward Channing and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Old Narragansett written by Alice Morse Earle and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Farther Brief and True Narration of the Great Swamp Fight in the Narragansett Country December 19 1675 written by and published by . This book was released on 1676 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Early History of Narragansett written by Elisha Reynolds Potter and published by Providence : Marshall, Brown. This book was released on 1835 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collections written by Massachusetts Historical Society and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...on a resolution to destroy the English out of the country, flush, probably, with a daring opinion of their superiority' over all their neighboring countrymen, who termed Sassacus, the grand sachem of the Pequots, a god that nobody could kill. However, that he might more effectually accomplish his bloody purpose, he makes application to Mianti nomo (or rather Ninicraft, which name the sachems of the ' Narragansett country have borne in their succeeding ages and reigns) for his junction in this war, politicly representing to him, "that if he should help or suffer the English to subdue the Pequots, they would thereby make way for his and his people's future ruin; alleging also that they need not come to open battle with the English, only fire their 5 The author was Nathaniel, Morton, Secretary of Plymouth Colony. The last an best edition of this work was printed at Boston in 1826, greatly enlarged and improved by the notes of the editor, the Honorable Judge Davis., Pub. Cam. houses, kill their cattle, and lie in ambush and shoot them as they went about their business. By that means they would be forced quickly to leave the country, and the Indians not exposed to any great hazard." These truly crafty and politic arguments, it was said, were upon the point of pre vailing on the Narragansetts; and had these, with the Mo hegans, at this time nearly allied to the Pequots, joined against us, they might then, in the infant state of these colonies, easily have accomplished their desperate design.. But God defeated the good counsel (on his part) of this heathen Ahithophel, --for the Narragansetts were more afraid of the Pequots, it is likely, than of the English; and at the same time an agency from the Massachusetts colony confirmed...
Download or read book This Land Is Their Land written by David J. Silverman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the “First Thanksgiving.” The treaty remained operative until King Philip's War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end. 400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags' ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving.
Download or read book Historical Collections of the Indians in New England written by Daniel Gookin and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samvel Gorton s Letter to Lord Hyde in Behalf of the Narragansett Sachems written by Samuel Gorton and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island written by Sydney V. James and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert's final word on institutional development and change in colonial Rhode Island.
Download or read book The History of Fairfield Fairfield County Connecticut from the Settlement of the Town in 1639 to 1818 1639 1700 written by Elizabeth Hubbell Godfrey Schenck and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations written by Thomas Williams Bicknell and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Key Into the Language of America written by Roger Williams and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers. This early linguistic treatise gives rare insight into the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans.
Download or read book Of Plymouth Plantation 1620 1647 written by William Bradford and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1952 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records the history of Plymouth Plantation as written by Bradford in his journals of 1620-1647.
