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Article: Redskins, high hats and blackfellas.(History)(Mayflower: A Voyage to War)(Book review)
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- Quadrant
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- May 1, 2007
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WHEN THE NATIVE AMERICANS (Indians) first came into contact with the English in Puritan New England in the seventeenth century they were awed and amazed by the things the Europeans had brought with them". Whether it was an iron plough, a musket or a windmill, they ascribed such strange inventions to a spiritual power. Gravel mining in 1913 uncovered an Indian burial ground of the time, and the dead were found to have been buried, along with Indian artefacts, with wine bottles, muskets, spoons, iron axes, kettles, bells, wool blankets, combs, scissors, hammers, horseshoes, locks, keys, hinges, knives, pewter bowls, swords, leather shoes and a jew's harp.
Thus the ...