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The Wages of the Covenant - The Praying Indians
Most native people in colonial New England did not die in the wars. They became colonists.
The standard story runs: encounter, conflict, destruction. The colonists arrived, the natives helped them, then the colonists wanted land, there was a war, the natives lost, the natives were destroyed. The version varies by who tells it, but the basic arc is what most American schoolchildren learn. And it is wrong about the structural fact.
Yes, there was a war — King Philip's War, in 1675, devastating to both sides and the subject of the next two episodes. But the war killed in the thousands. The other…
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