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Title: New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians 1620-1675 by Alden T. Vaughan ISBN: 0-8061-2718-X Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Tribes and Colonies
Comment: In 1620 the English Puritans settled in the region they called New England. There they met the natives, the Indians. This book explains how the Puritans and Indians related with each other until 1675. Vaughan demonstrates that the Puritans did not exploit the Indians as often believed but dealt fairly with them. He neither denigrates nor whitewashes either the Puritans or the Indians, but is fair to both sides.
Vaughan describes the Indians, their beliefs and customs, and what they thought of the Puritans. Vaughan also portrays the beliefs and customs of the Puritans and their attitudes towards the Indians. Vaughan recounts how the Puritans and the Indians allied together to destroy the aggressive Pequot tribe in the Pequot war in 1637.
Vaughan sketches the trade between Puritans and Indians, at first trading furs for items and later for wampum. Then he describes how the Puritans tried to fit the Indians fairly into their legal system. Finally he recounts the Puritans attempts to convert the Indians to Christianity.
This is an excellent account, based on extensive primary and secondary sources, of the little known period before King Philips attack on the Puritans changed how the colonists and the Indians saw each other.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent and balanced
Comment: This is the most balanced account of the relationship between the Indians and the early settlers I have read. It is an excellent book for someone who is interested in both sides of the story, Indian and Puritan. Vaughan tries to portray the truth of both people's viewpoint and doesn't get bogged down in politically correct rambling so prevalent in modern renditions (i.e. Greg Nobles). A must read for those who desire to be balanced in their view of History.
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Title: The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest (Norton Library (Paperback)) by Francis Jennings ISBN: 0393008304 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1976 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict by Eric B. Schultz, Michael J. Tougias ISBN: 0881504831 Publisher: Countryman Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Puritans Among the Indians: Accounts of Captivity and Redemption, 1676-1724 (John Harvard Library) by Alden Vaughan ISBN: 0674738993 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1986 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Igniting King Philip's War: The John Sassamon Murder Trial by Yasuhide Kawashima ISBN: 0700610936 Publisher: University Press of Kansas Pub. Date: 20 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: New England Indians, 2nd (Illustrated Living History Series) by C. Keith Wilbur ISBN: 1564409937 Publisher: Globe Pequot Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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