![]() Led by the Pokanoket Wampanoag leader Metacomet, called King Philip by the English, the war drew together a diverse coalition of Indigenous tribes including the Nipmuck, Pocumtuck, and Narraganset against the English and their Mohegan and Mohawk allies. A terrible, genocidal conflict that raged throughout southern New England from 1675 to 1678, King Philip’s War was, without a doubt, “one of the most devastating periods in the history of the early American Northeast” (p. “We cannot study Indian New England prior to 1675 without the knowledge of the destruction to come after the war, things are never the same again” (p. “It is difficult to escape the shadow it casts,” he said. DeLucia introduces her book by quoting Colin Calloway’s observation that King Philip’s War remains one of the “great watershed” moments in the Indigenous and colonial history of New England. Dwelling in the Shadow of King Philip’s WarĬhristine M. ![]()
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