The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics among the New England Indians

1993 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Wilcomb E. Washburn ◽  
Patrick M. Malone
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New England Indians

scholarly journals “Savages” in the Service of Empire: Native American Soldiers in Gorham's Rangers, 1744–1762

2012 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New England ◽  
Military Service ◽  
New England Indians ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Colonial Frontier

Gorham's Rangers, initially an all-Indian ranger company, was instrumental in Britain's conquest of Nova Scotia (Acadia) during the eighteenth century. In the process of uncovering that story, the essay assesses New England Indians’ role in shaping colonial frontier warfare as well as the impact of military service on Native American communities.

“The English Did Wrong Them About Their Lands”

2018 ◽  
pp. 176-202
Author(s):  
Jenny Hale Pulsipher
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Indian Land ◽  
Returning Home ◽  
New England Indians ◽  
Indian Leadership

This chapter details John Wompas's experience of returning home and finding an English family occupying his house, which was emblematic of the situation facing New England Indians in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, a situation dramatically accelerated by the recent war. Everywhere, the English had taken possession of Indian property, shutting Indians out with their fences, their livestock, and their laws. Not just barriers and deeds, but also colony-wide restrictions on Indian activity made what once had been Indian land off limits. This seems to have triggered a radical change in Wompas, turning him from a man who moved fluidly between Indian and English worlds in pursuit of his own interests to one who consistently represented himself as an Indian, championed Indian interests, and aspired to Indian leadership.

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