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The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American IdentityOur history books continue to present our country's story in conventional patriotic terms. America being settled by courageous, white colonists who tamed a wilderness and the savages in it. With very few exceptions our society depicts these people who actually first discovered America and without whose help the colonists would not have survived, as immoral, despicable savages who needed to be removed by killing and shipping out of the country into slavery. In her book, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, Jill Lepore tells us there was another side to the story of King Philip's War. She goes beyond the actual effects of the war to discuss how language, literacy, and privilege have had lasting effects on the legacy that followed it.In 1675, tensions between Native Americans and colonists residing in New England erupted into the brutal conflict that has come to be known as King Philip's War, the bloodiest battle in America history, in proportion to population it was also the deadliest war in American history. The English colonists wished to rid the country of the Indians in order to seiz
" In fact, both the Indians and English colonists participated in creating the same horrific levels of violence. Lepore suggests that a significant cause of the war was the fear and ignorance the two groups had for one another. They used their advantage of literacy to cast the war into words; to write about the war and use images and stories which favored themselves and to depict the Indians as cruel, non-human savages. Three thousand Narragansett and one thousand Algonquin Indians were killed through fighting, starvation, and disease. They believed the Indians were savages and therefore were not worthy of equal rights. General devastation was so widespread, the other losses practically forced the colonists to leave New England wholesale. Lepore describes how the colonists attempted to cover up their malicious behavior by blaming their wrong-doings on their allies, the Mohegans. The tensions between these two groups were primarily based on a fear of their changing identities. The Indians' illiteracy placed them at a severe disadvantage because their experiences from King Philip's War were not recorded, and if they were no documentation has ever been discovered. Written words in American textbooks prolong the continuous strife's that Native Americans have against the English and vice versa. By the time that King Philip was shot, the allied Indian nations had destroyed more than half the English settlements in New England. There were organized raids back and forth which resulted in thousands of murders. As a result, the power of native religious leaders was corrupted. Records of a decapitation of a Narragansett specifically describes that the Mohegans "delighted" at watching the killing.
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