Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts write by Julie A. Fisher. This book was released on 2014-05-22. Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ninigret (c. 1600–1676) was a sachem of the Niantic and Narragansett Indians of what is now Rhode Island from the mid-1630s through the mid-1670s. For Ninigret and his contemporaries, Indian Country and New England were multipolar political worlds shaped by ever-shifting intertribal rivalries. In the first biography of Ninigret, Julie A. Fisher and David J. Silverman assert that he was the most influential Indian leader of his era in southern New England. As such, he was a key to the balance of power in both Indian-colonial and intertribal relations.Ninigret was at the center of almost every major development involving southern New England Indians between the Pequot War of 1636–37 and King Philip's War of 1675–76. He led the Narragansetts' campaign to become the region's major power, including a decades-long war against the Mohegans led by Uncas, Ninigret's archrival. To offset growing English power, Ninigret formed long-distance alliances with the powerful Mohawks of the Iroquois League and the Pocumtucks of the Connecticut River Valley. Over the course of Ninigret's life, English officials repeatedly charged him with plotting to organize a coalition of tribes and even the Dutch to roll back English settlement. Ironically, though, he refused to take up arms against the English in King Philip’s War. Ninigret died at the end of the war, having guided his people through one of the most tumultuous chapters of the colonial era.
Sachems of the Narragansetts
Sachems of the Narragansetts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sachems of the Narragansetts write by Howard M. Chapin. This book was released on 1931. Sachems of the Narragansetts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A History of the Narraganset Tribe of Rhode Island
A History of the Narraganset Tribe of Rhode Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Narraganset Tribe of Rhode Island write by Robert A. Geake. This book was released on 2020-11-09. A History of the Narraganset Tribe of Rhode Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of the indigenous people in what would become Rhode Island, their encounters with Europeans, and their return to sovereignty in the twentieth century. Before Roger Williams set foot in the New World, the Narragansett farmed corn and squash, hunted beaver and deer, and harvested clams and oysters throughout what would become Rhode Island. They also obtained wealth in the form of wampum, a carved shell that was used as currency along the eastern coast. As tensions with the English rose, the Narragansett leaders fought to maintain autonomy. While the elder Sachem Canonicus lived long enough to welcome both Verrazzano and Williams, his nephew Miatonomo was executed for his attempts to preserve their way of life and circumvent English control. Historian Robert A. Geake explores the captivating story of these Native Rhode Islanders.
Swindler Sachem
Swindler Sachem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Swindler Sachem write by Jenny Hale Pulsipher. This book was released on 2018-06-19. Swindler Sachem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Indians, too, could play the land game for both personal and political benefit According to his kin, John Wompas was “no sachem,” although he claimed that status to achieve his economic and political ends. He drew on the legal and political practices of both Indians and the English—even visiting and securing the support of King Charles II—to legitimize the land sales that funded his extravagant spending. But he also used the knowledge acquired in his English education to defend the land and rights of his fellow Nipmucs. Jenny Hale Pulsipher’s biography offers a window on seventeenth-century New England and the Atlantic world from the unusual perspective of an American Indian who, even though he may not have been what he claimed, was certainly out of the ordinary. Drawing on documentary and anthropological sources as well as consultations with Native people, Pulsipher shows how Wompas turned the opportunities and hardships of economic, cultural, religious, and political forces in the emerging English empire to the benefit of himself and his kin.
Dominion and Civility
Dominion and Civility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dominion and Civility write by Michael Leroy Oberg. This book was released on 2018-08-06. Dominion and Civility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Was the relationship between English settlers and Native Americans in the New World destined to turn tragic? This book investigates how the newcomers interacted with Algonquian groups in the Chesapeake Bay area and New England, describing the role that original Americans occupied in England's empire during the critical first century of contact. Michael Leroy Oberg considers the history of Anglo-Indian relations in transatlantic context while viewing the frontier as a zone where neither party had the upper hand. He tells how the English pursued three sets of policies in America—securing profit for their sponsors, making lands safe from both European and native enemies, and "civilizing" the Indians—and explains why the British settlers found it impossible to achieve all of these goals. Oberg places the history of Anglo-Indian relations in the early Chesapeake and New England in a broad transatlantic context while drawing parallels with subsequent efforts by England as well as its imperial rivals—the French, Dutch, and Spanish—to plant colonies in America. Dominion and Civility promises to broaden our understanding of the exchange between Europeans and Indians and makes an important contribution to the emerging history of the English Atlantic world.
