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Title: Indian European Relations


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Indian / European Relations
  • William Wood
  • Tavon Williams
  • Rebecca Grant
  • Anil Shah
  • Linette Davis

Laura Stover Laura Negru Kristen Hudson Punit
Bhakta
2
INTRODUCTION
European Relations with the Indians will be
derived through the use of events including
trade, Indian culture, and the Pequot War. Trade
was an essential element for Europeans to
colonize in the New World. Indian culture
included European establishment in the New World
through the dedication of Teepee housing and
agriculture. The Pequot Indians were slaughtered
by the Europeans during the war due to conflicts
regarding trade and cultural differences. This
war was instrumental in the decline of the Indian
population.

3
THESIS
  • The influences of European colonization on New
    England Indian culture which led to the decline
    and disbursement of Indian population.

4
METHODOLOGY
  • Our thesis is supported by the following
    documents Thomas Mortons Description of the
    Indians in New England and Narratives of Pequot
    War by John Mason and Lion Gardiner. We
    synthesized these documents that make direct
    correlations to the European influences on Indian
    culture. Chapter three of Out of Many A History
    of the American People by John Mack Faragher
    provided information regarding cause and effects
    of the European and Pequot conflict. These direct
    accounts connected underlying concepts discovered
    in books, periodicals, and internet sources
    listed in the bibliography.

5
Thomas Morton Perceptions
  • I have observed that the Salvages have the
    sence of seeing so farre beyond any of our
    Nation, that one would allmost believe they had
    intelligence of the Devill sometimes, when they
    have told us of a ship at Sea, which they have
    seen sooner by one hour, yea, two hours sail,
    then any English man that stood by of purpose to
    looke out, their sight is so excellent. . . .

6
TRADE
  • Of their Trafficke and Trade One With Another.
  • Although these people have not the use of
    navigation, whereby they may trafficke as other
    nations, that are civilized, use to doe, yet doe
    they barter for such commodities as they have,
    and have a kinde of beads instead of money, to
    buy withall such things as they want, which they
    call Wampampeak wampum and it is of two sorts,
    the one is white, the other is of a violet
    coloure. These are made of the shells of fish.
    The white with them is as silver with us the
    other as our. gould and for these beads they buy
    and fell, not only amongst themselves, but even
    with us.
  • We have used to sell them any of our commodities
    for this Wampumpeak, because we know we can have
    beaver againe of them for it and these beads are
    currant i.e. currency in all the parts of New
    England, from one end of the coast to the other.
    . . .

7
CUSTOMS
  • Firing of the Country
  • And this custom of firing the Country is the
    meanes to make it passable and by that meanes
    the trees growe here and there as in our parks
    and makes the Country very beautifull and
    commodious. And this custom of firing the Country
    is the meanes to make it passable and by that
    meanes the trees growe here and there as in our
    parks and makes the Country very beautifull and
    commodious.
  • For, when the fire is once kindled, it dilates
    and spreads itself as well against, as with the
    wind burning continually night and day, untill a
    shower of rain falls to quench it.

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CUSTOMS CONTINUED
  • Houses and Habitations
  • The Natives of New England are accustomed to
    build them houses much like the wild Irish they
    gather Poles in the woodes and put the great end
    of them in the ground, placing them in forme of a
    circle or circumference, and, bendinge the topps
    of them in forme of an Arch, they bind them
    together with the Barke of Walnut trees, which is
    wondrous tough, so that they make the same round
    on the Topp for the smoke of their fire to ascend
    and pass through
  • They use not to winter and surnmer in one.place,
    for that would be a reason to make fuel scarce
    but, after the manner of the gentry of Civilized
    natives, remove for their pleasures some times
    to their hunting places, where they remaine
    keeping good hospitality for that season

9
Native American Religious Beliefs
  • Spirit based
  • Good Spirit
  • Bad Spirit
  • Myth and Objects
  • No written stories
  • Belief in Sun, Earth, etc

10
RELIGION
  • Although these Salvages are found to be without
    Religion, Law, and King (as Sir William Alexander
    hath well observed,) yet are they not altogether
    without the knowledge of God (historically)

11
RELIGION
Jesuit missionary baptizing an Indian child.
12
Colonial Religions
13
Pequot War
  • Major influx of European Settlers
  • borders are penetrated
  • Kinship systems
  • European lifestyles and beliefs Indian Tribes
  • Tribes
  • Narrangansetts
  • Mohegans
  • Pequots
  • Trade
  • Initial trade agreements
  • Wampum
  • tributary agreements
  • Dutch Strategy

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Significant Events
  • Pequots murder neighboring Indian tribe
  • Dutch seek revenge
  • Captain John Stone
  • Mass. Bay-Pequot treaty
  • 1636 2nd account of Stone's murder revealed in
    Boston
  • Captain John Oldham

15
The War
  • Aug 1636 John Endicott, John Underhill, William
    Turner
  • Ft. Saybrook
  • 1637 Pequots attempts to align with
    Narrangansetts
  • Wethersfield
  • May 1637
  • Sept. 1638 Treaty of Hartford

16
Battles
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CONCLUSION
  • The events and conflicts through the 1600s
    between the colonists and Indians was the start
    of the downfall and scattering of the Indian
    survivors which would later lead to the
    absorption of the Indian tribes throughout the
    South and the Midwest.
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