1. Constructed Image of Pilgrims and Natives

2. Defining Genocide: on Jupiter Grades
Write the most accurate & complete definition for “genocide” that you can.
Beneath your definition, list as many examples of genocide that you can think of.

3. Mystic, Connecticut

4. Massacre at Mystic: Coexistence
Colonists traded with Pequot Tribe for: 1.
Pequot Tribe traded with the colonists for: 2.
Does this trade relationship seem mutually beneficial or was one side gaining more than the other?

5. Massacre at Mystic: Spirituality3.
Create a bulleted list of 2 or 3 key aspects of each sides spiritual beliefs
Pequot Spirituality
Puritan Spirituality
Why do you think the historians in the film included spiritual differences as an important part of the story of the Massacre at Mystic? 4.

6. Massacre at Mystic: Gender Roles5.
Create a bulleted list of 2 or 3 key aspects of the gender roles that men and women played in each culture.
Pequot Gender Roles
Colonist Gender Roles
Men
Women

7. Massacre at Mystic: Disease6.
Describe how each side understands the small pox epidemic below.
Small pox epidemic for the Pequot tribe
Small pox epidemic for the Colonists 7.
How would you react to a deadly epidemic killing the members of your family & the majority of your community?

8. Massacre at Mystic: Land8.
Describe the differences in each sides attitude to land below.
Land & wilderness for the Pequot tribe
Land & wilderness for the Colonists 9.
Why was it increasingly difficult for each side to be able to use the land the way their culture believed was best?

9. Massacre at Mystic: War
10. Describe two reasons that the colonists used to justify their plan to attack the Pequot Tribe.
11. How was the warfare used by the colonists during the Pequot War different from any war that Native Americans had fought before?

10. Genocide?
12. One of the historians in the film refers to the colonists belief that they had won a victory for civilization over savagery as “our primary historical myth”. What does he mean?
13. Do the colonists’ actions at Mystic, CT during the Pequot War fit with the definition for genocide that you wrote at the beginning of class? Why or why not?
14. Do you agree with the historians in the film who characterize the Pequot War as genocide? Why or why not?