Essays Tagged: "Pequot"
The land of the free and the not so free to some.
hat went through more than we could possibly know. His father was a gentleman of diverse race, part Pequot and part white; his mother was most likely a slave, quite possibly part African American. His ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Comarison of the bias over the Pequot War in four different US History textbooks.
The Americans and The Enduring Vision have entirely different views on the cause of the Pequot War. In The Americans it stresses that the Puritans were attacking Native American nations fo ... s, the New England colonists set out to remove or destroy native societies." (56). Consequently the Pequot nation decided to "take a stand against the colonists" (56) for not only themselves, but all ... even though the colonists were doing the natives this favor, there were still some tribes, like the Pequots, who resented it simply because they liked to quarrel.When describing the war each book prov ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
This is a 2 part essay about Howard Zinn and Robert Royal Commenting on each others opinions about Christopher Columbus and the Arawak Nation
ple of culture. This nation is America. These people were the Arawak, Iroquois, Cherokee, Powhatan, Pequot, and Wampanoag just to name a few. The tyrants were Spanish explorers, English settlers, and ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Aggressors of the Pequot War. Essay explores controversy over the war and argues that statue of Major John Mason should be removed, instead of glorified.
The Aggressors of the Pequot War In 1889, the state of Connecticut raised a memorial statue of Major John Mason in ... ut raised a memorial statue of Major John Mason in a spot near where he and his comrades killed 600 Pequot men, women, and children during the Pequot War. A few years ago, the statue was moved to the ... he statue was moved to the Palisado Green in Windsor, Connecticut. The statue was moved because the Pequots felt that the English were the aggressors of the Pequot War and had no right to keep their s ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
Were the English Colonists Guilty of Genocide?
defense against the Indians' attacks.By 1607, when the European colonists arrived at Jamestown, the Pequots numbered 14,000, but in the next hundred years that number would decrease by ninety-five per ... e epidemics' effects were a gift from God, and that the Indians were the Devil's workers.In 1636, a Pequot was accused of murdering a colonist. The settlers went on a rampage to seek revenge. They bur ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Strangers, God and monsters
s 'savages'. The western myth of the frontier epitomizes this, for example, when Pilgrim encounters Pequot on the shores of Massachusetts and asks 'Who is this stranger?' Not realizing, of course, tha ... shores of Massachusetts and asks 'Who is this stranger?' Not realizing, of course, that the native Pequot is asking exactly the same question of the arrivals from Plymouth. Strangers are almost alway ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy