Namumpum, “Our Beloved Kinswoman,” Saunkskwa of Pocasset: Bonds, Acts, Deeds

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
New England ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Agricultural Fields ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
New England Colonies ◽  
Alliance Building

This chapter analyzes deeds and other documents in which the Wampanoag saunkskwa Weetamoo appeared as a major diplomatic figure, setting the stage for her alliance building during King Philip’s War. Weetamoo materializes only on the eve of war in most histories, which often rely on postwar narratives that displace both her diplomacy and the war waged against Indigenous women and their agricultural fields. This chapter fills a substantial gap in the record, focusing on the documents that demonstrate Weetamoo’s leadership prior to the war, as well as the challenge she posed to male settlers in Plymouth and other New England colonies, who sought to impose local colonial rule. The chapter interprets key documents through the frameworks of Indigenous kinship, geography, governance, and sustainable agriculture, highlighting the strategic adaptations of Wampanoag and Narragansett leaders in response to English colonialism. By bringing together many obscure but related documents, this chapter builds a frame for better understanding the motivations, interventions, and experiences of Weetamoo and other neighboring Indigenous leaders which formed the ground for their responses to King Philip’s War.

Algonquian Diasporas

Memory Lands ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine M. DeLucia
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
New England ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Community Members ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Native American Tribes

This chapter examines how King Philip’s War gave rise to a significant but often ignored or misperceived history of bondage, enslavement, and diaspora that took Native Americans far from their northeast homelands, and subjected them to a range of brutal conditions across an Atlantic World. It focuses on Algonquians’ transits into captivity as a consequence of the war, and historicizes this process within longer trajectories of European subjugation of Indigenous populations for labor. The chapter examines how Algonquian individuals and families were forcibly placed into New England colonial as well as Native communities at the war’s conclusion, and how others were transported out of the region for sale across the Atlantic World. The case of King Philip’s wife and son is especially complex, and the chapter considers how traditions around their purported sale into slavery in Bermuda interact with challenging racial politics and archival traces. Modern-day “reconnection” events have linked St. David’s Island community members in Bermuda to Native American tribes in New England. The chapter also reflects on wider dimensions of this Algonquian diaspora, which likely brought Natives to the Caribbean, Azores, and Tangier in North Africa, and propelled Native migrants/refugees into Wabanaki homelands.

Necessary to Abide

2018 ◽  
pp. 19-57
Author(s):  
Gina M. Martino
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Mob Violence ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Native Women ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Colonial Policy

This chapter explores how colonists in seventeenth-century New England used gender ideologies about women’s roles as actors in public spheres to frame their understanding of women who fought in the region’s wars. The chapter explores this idea from three different angles. First, it examines how New England’s colonies incorporated women’s martial activities into their colonization strategy, sometimes even requiring women to remain in remote fortified towns, living in garrison houses that simultaneously served as military and household spaces. Second, it looks at how Native women participated in the region’s wars as leaders (sachems), spies, combatants, and in ritual torture. The chapter investigates how English politicians used their own concepts about women’s public roles to shape their ideas about Native female combatants. This section also features a case study of Weetamoo of the Pocasset, a prominent female sachem who died while leading an anti-colonial coalition in King Philip’s War (1675-76). Third, the chapter explores how English women attempted to shape military and colonial policy through mob violence.

First Impressions and First Arrivals

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Hunter
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Cotton Mather ◽  
Indigenous Lands ◽  
History Of ◽  
Colonial New England ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter relates the first decades of colonial interpretation of Dighton Rock after its markings were first described in 1680, mainly by John Danforth and Cotton Mather. It places the interpretation of the rock in the context of dispossession of Indigenous lands following the rebellion known as King Philip’s War. Erasure of Indigenous peoples from the history of colonial New England is discussed. It introduces contemporary theories rooted in Biblical hermeneutics of human migration and the relationship of Indigenous people to the rest of humanity, including ideas that they were descendants of Tartars, Canaanites, or the Lost Tribes of Israel. The author’s concept of White Tribism is explained.

Dissent in New England

2020 ◽  
pp. 244-266
Author(s):  
Francis J. Bremer
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
New Order ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Anne Hutchinson ◽  
Religious Establishment ◽  
New England Colonies ◽  
Roger Williams ◽  
The Church

The New England colonies were settled in the early seventeenth century by men and women who could not in conscience subscribe to all aspects of the faith and practice of the Church of England. In creating new societies they struggled with how to define their churches and their relationship with the national Church they dissented from. As their New England Way evolved the orthodox leaders of the new order identified and took action against those who challenged it. Interaction with dissenters such as Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Baptists, and Quakers helped to further define the colonial religious establishment.

King Philip’s War, 1675–1678

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa T. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Native People ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
Plymouth Colony ◽  
Indian War ◽  
Resistance Movement

King Philip’s War (1675–1678) was both a colonial war and an Indigenous resistance movement, which erupted in the summer of 1675 in Wampanoag country and in Plymouth Colony, but quickly spread throughout coastal and interior Native homelands and New England. While sometimes regarded as a singular moment of conquest in the birth of New England, it also was known as the “first Indian war.” Thus, conflicts over land and jurisdiction among New England colonists and Native nations continued not only until the end of King Philip’s War in 1678 but through nearly one hundred years of warfare and diplomacy, in which Native people in the Northeast sought to adapt to colonization and draw settlers into Indigenous protocols and networks.

“Dark Cloud Rising from the East”: Indian Sovereignty and the Coming of King William's War in New England

2007 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Hale Pulsipher
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Dark Cloud ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Indian Wars ◽  
East Indian ◽  
Indian Relations ◽  
To Come

King William's War (1689–97) has long been overshadowed by the wars bracketing it, but it was pivotal to English-Indian relations. As the English violated the treaty promises concluding King Philip's War and ignored Indian sovereignty, Indians turned to the French, establishing an alliance that would characterize the French and Indian Wars to come.

King Philip's War: Civil War in New England, 1675-1676

2000 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 669
Author(s):  
Ann Marie Plane ◽  
James D. Drake ◽  
Michael Leroy Oberg
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
New England ◽  
King Philip's War
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