Question: What do these documents tell us about the causes of Metacom's War and about the effect it had on Indian-English
relations?
“So Must We Be One..., Otherwise We Shall Be All Gone Shortly”: Narragansett
Chief Miantonomi Tries to Form an Alliance Against
Settlers in New England and Long Island, 1640s.: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6227
John Eliot’s Brief Narrative (1670) (on “praying towns” of Christian Indians): http://www.bartleby.com/43/12.html
“Various are the reports...of the causes of the present Indian warre”: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=206
(Metacom) King Philip’s War: “Metacom
Relates Indian Complaints about the English Settlers, 1675”: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6226
“A Severe and Proud Dame She Was”: Mary Rowlandson Lives Among the Indians,
1675: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5793
“Such Was the Tumultation These Women Made”: The
Women of Marblehead Wreak Revenge Upon Indian Captors, 1677: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5835
“Our Sages are Sageles”: A Letter on Massachusetts
Indian Policy after King Philip's War” http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/wm/58.2/pulsipher.html
(You need to be on campus or have tweaked your browser to access library
databases to access this document).
“I Believe It Is Because I Am a Poor Indian”: Samsom Occom’s Life as an Indian Minister” by Samsom
Occom: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5788