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Article: King Philip's War: Civil War in New England 1675-1676
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- Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
- Article date:
- May 3, 2000
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Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
05-03-2000
King Philip's War: Civil War in New England 1675-1676
By James D. Drake
Sometimes described as "America's deadliest war," King Philip's War proved
a critical turning point in the history of New England.
English colonists were left decisively in command of the region at the
expense of Native peoples. Generally understood as an inevitable clash of
cultures, Drake sees it as a civil war whose divisions cut across simple
ethnic lines and tore apart both societies.
Drake holds that the interdependence which developed between the English
and the American Indians, leading up to the war, helps explain its
notorious brutality. Its end result was nothing less ...
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