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    King Philip's War

    –78 war in New England

    King Philip's War (sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion)[4] was an armed conflict in – between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands against the English New England Colonies and their indigenous allies. The war is named for Metacom (alternatively Metacomet), the Pokanoket ledare and sachem of the Wampanoag who had adopted the English name Philip because of the friendly relations between his father Massasoit and the Plymouth Colony. The war continued in the most northern reaches of New England until the signing of the Treaty of Casco Bay on April 12, [6]

    Massasoit had maintained a long-standing alliance with the colonists and Metacom (c.&#;–), his younger son, became the tribal chief in after his father's death. Metacom, however, forsook his father's alliance between the Wampanoags and the colonists after

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    Eulogy of King Philip (Metacom)

    Date
    January 26,

    Material
    Paper, Speech, Engraving

    Author/Maker
    William Apess (Pequot) (), Illman & Pilbrow (Engraver), Paradise, John, (Artist)

    Source
    A son of the forest. The experience of William Apes, a native of the forest

    William Apess (Pequot) was a Methodist minister, veteran of the War of , and a leading advocate for the Mashpee Wampanoag community’s continued autonomy and self-rule in the early s. In his "Eulogy on King Philip" delivered at the Odeon lecture hall in Boston in , Apess drew parallels between King Philip's War (), also called Metacom's Rebellion, and equated Metacom to George Washington in military skill, love of country, and personal honor. Appes sought to redeem Metacom as a martyr for his people and challenge early 19th century Americans’ behavior towards Indigenous people as a continuation of long traditions of false promises, broken treaties, enslavement, and oppression. No 17th-century Indigen

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    Roger Williams used his diplomatic skill to keep the English and Native Americans on friendly terms. However, relations between Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoag slowly deteriorated. By the s, the purchasing of Indian land by the English and a series of hostile incidents resulted in King Phillip’s War. The Chief Sachem of the Wampanoag, Metacom (or King Phillip as he was known to the English), sent the old men, women, and children of the tribe across Narragansett Bay. There they could live safely as refugees of the Narragansett.

    Roger William helped the Narragansettsign a treaty of neutrality with the Massachusetts Bay Colony in October The Narragansett promised they would not join King Phillip. However, after the signing, Boston authorities demanded that the Narragansett turn over the Wampanoag refugees as hostages. The Narragansett could not betray the safety of those who had sought refuge with them.

    Fearing an alliance between the Narragansett and the Wampanoag, the English asse