In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English ...
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The adoption of firearms by Native Americans between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples--a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. T...
From the award-winning author of This Land Is Their Land, a sweeping, singular chronicle placing race at the center of Native American U.S. history.At the onset of their encounter, Europeans did not yet conceive of themselves as Whites, and Native Americans did not consider thems...