King Phillips War...the most important war you've never...

[ret5hd]

heard of:

[panfluteman]

1. Actually, I HAD Heard of King Phillip's War...

It was one of the first wars fought by the American colonists against the Indians, or Native Americans - in New England. And it probably was THE first such war - and that's why they're calling it the most important. King Philip was what the Puritan colonists called this local Indian chief, I believe.

Now, to watch the video...

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Zoeth "Zoar" Howland

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Howland-93

Brother of Mayflower Pilgrim John Howland.

[ancianita]

3. Metacomet threw out the peace agreement by his father Massassoit, of thanksgiving lore.

Land and resource control was a failure of diplomacy by the English, a failure they capitalized on for a few more centuries of wealth building.

Metacomet became sachem of the Pokanoket and Grand Sachem of the Wampanoag Confederacy in 1662 after the death of his older brother Grand Sachem Wamsutta (called "Alexander" by the colonists), who had succeeded their father Massasoit (d. 1661) as chief. Metacomet was well known to the colonists before his ascension as paramount chief to the Wampanoags, but he distrusted the colonists.[15]

The Plymouth colonists had passed laws making it illegal to have commerce with the Wampanoags.[citation needed][clarification needed] They learned that Wamsutta had sold a parcel of land to Roger Williams, so Governor Josiah Winslow had Wamsutta arrested, even though Wampanoags who lived outside of colonist jurisdiction were not accountable to Plymouth Colony laws. Metacomet began negotiating with the other Algonquian tribes against the Plymouth Colony soon after the death of his father and his brother.[16][page needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip%27s_War

Guns first used by corporate gun traffickers to destabilize and exterminate the peaceful societies they found in the Americas. The same trafficking, and "cartel" methods are still being used in Central, South America (through weapon/drug routes in Florida and the Caribbean).
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[jpak]

4. We were taught about this in Maine grade school

It was required history.

[Warpy]

5. I'd heard of it from both sides

The Wampanoags are especially interesting and yes, their numbers are depleted but they're still there.

People here in NM were pretty shocked when I told them that.

[dove2]

6. Read "The Savage Apostle"

I agree. King Philip’s War was an important war, unfortunately never mentioned in schools. It set the awful precedent for Native American/US relations right up to modern times.

My novel, “The Savage Apostle,” recounts the events leading up to the war, beginning with the murder of John Sassamon and the trial of three accused Wampanoag.

If you can’t find the book in your local bookstore, you can pick it up on Amazon. I also have a limited supply if you’d like an autographed copy. Contact me through johnkachuba.com