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
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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.

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THESIS

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

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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.

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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. . . .

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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.
  . . .

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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

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Native American Religious Beliefs

• Spirit based
• Good Spirit
• Bad Spirit
• Myth and Objects
• No written stories
• Belief in Sun, Earth, etc

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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)

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RELIGION
Jesuit missionary baptizing an Indian child.
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Colonial Religions
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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

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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

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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.