AMIND 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Casco Bay, Puritans, Pequot War
Document Summary
Pequot war: armed conflict between pequot tribe and an alliance of english colonists of. Massachusetts bay, plymouth, and saybrook colonies and their native american allies: occurred between 1634-1638, efforts to control fur trade in the area heightened tension. Incidents and attacks between pequots, jmohegans, narragansetts, and english settlers: on july 20, 1636, a respected trader, john oldham, was attacked by a group of. Continued war: during the pequot war, colony officials offered bounties for the heads of murdered. Indigenous peoples: mid-1670s marked the beginning of the routine practice of scalp hunting by settlers on neighboring indigenous nations, english colonies had increased in population to 150,000 settlers. Why discuss the bloody footprints: shows complex relationships between native communities, complicates the dominant narrative depicting puritans as peaceful and coexisting with the tribes.
