 Provided assistance and knowledge to early English settlers  Provided a market for European goods  Helped Europeans in the fur trade

 Get diseases from the English  Sell land to the English, get pushed off land  Indians become more divided, some ally with English and convert to Christianity  Alcohol becomes an issue  Indians are viewed as “heathens” and “savages”

 Connecticut, Plymouth, and Mass. Bay v. The Pequot Indians  Cause: Competition over trade with the Dutch  Trigger: The death of trader John Oldham

 The English allied with the Narragansett Indians and planned an attack  Captain John Mason led an attack against a Pequot fort and set it on fire killing Pequots (mostly women, children, and older men)  Destroyed Pequots and nearly eliminated entire tribe, opened up New England for settlement

 King Philip or Metacomet was the Chief of the Wampanoags  King Philip and the Wampanoags were angry at losing their land  “praying Indians” converting to Christianity

 A “Praying Indian” named John Sassamone told Plymouth that King Philip was organizing an attack  Sassamone was murdered the next and 3 Wampanoags were arrested, tried, and executed

 The Wampanoags attack the settlers and the war consists of a series of bloody raids  The New England Confederation is too strong for the Indians  The Mohawks provided key help to the English

 King Philips is shot, killed, and decapitated by Mohawks (tell gruesome story to class- earmuffs if you don’t want to hear)  Impact: destroyed colonial settlements, destroyed Native Americans in New England