HIS 315K Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pequot War, Pequot People, Indigenous Peoples Of The Eastern Woodlands
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Eastern woodland"s nations: two major indian nations. Sided with the british: both traded, and cooperated with the french, british or both, settled existence; not nomadic tribes, prepared their own food. Both men and women worked in the fields: british settlements were growing faster. Anglo-colonial expansion; colonist-indian wars: pequot war 1637. Pequot were trading furs with puritan settlers. 1636: pequot fur trader killed a british colonist. To avenge the death of the fur trader. Sold all the women and children to slavery in the west indies. British settlers wanted more land, and native americans didn"t want to give up more: powhatan uprising, 1622; powhatan defeat, 1646. Powhatan is provoke, decides to drive the english into the sea. English sends for reinforcements, powhatan defeated and truce. 1646 truce requires natives to recognize they are under colonial rule: metacom"s war (king phillip"s war) 1675-76.
