![]() Philip was dead, his people scattered or enslaved, and his allies decimated and driven away. By the time the war ended in August 1677, nearly every community in the region had been drawn into the conflict, and the English were the unopposed rulers of New England. Colonial expansion created increasing friction between natives and settlers, which finally blazed into war in June 1675, when a Wampanoag band looted several English farms. This ghastly tableau resulted, ironically, from the colonies’ eventual success. Yet just 54 years later, colonial soldiers paraded through Plymouth Colony with the head of Massasoit’s son, King Philip, impaled on a pike. Relations between the English and Wampanoag leader Massasoit were generally peaceful, and in 1622 the Indian leader visited Plymouth to negotiate a treaty guaranteeing the colonists the security they needed to establish their settlement. ![]() The Indians taught the Europeans how to cultivate maize, where to fish, and how to prepare for the harsh winters, in short, how to survive in what was, to the colonists, a frightening wilderness. ![]() WE were taught at school that the British settlement of New England would have failed without the aid of the region’s Native Americans. Tougias, The Countryman Press, 432 pages, $29.95. ![]() KING PHILIP’S WAR: THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN CONFLICT, by Eric B. Book Review: KING PHILIP'S WAR: THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN CONFLICT (by Eric B. ![]()
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