THE INDIAN WARS DURING THE ERA OF CONQUEST My ancestor had a fortified house in

THE INDIAN WARS DURING THE ERA OF CONQUEST

My ancestor had a fortified house in connecticut and his home was the first attacked by the indians in the King Phillp’s War

—“The war was the single greatest calamity to occur in seventeenth century Puritan New England and is considered by many to be the deadliest war in the history of European settlement in North America in proportion to the population.[5] In the space of little more than a year, twelve of the region’s towns were destroyed and many more damaged, the colony’s economy was all but ruined, and its population was decimated, losing one-tenth of all men available for military service.[6]:656 [7] More than half of New England’s towns were attacked by Indians.[8]”—

The original conflicts were between tribes for access to trade with europeans (furs).

Further escalated because different settlements by different countries, allied with different indian tribes. The tribes were often enemies of one another. And each defended its relationship with the settlements. These spiralled.

They further escalated as populations began to increase, there was competition, and ‘fights’ between indians and settlers.

“…the settlers increasingly encroached on Tuscarora land, raided villages to take slaves, and introduced epidemic diseases….”

They escalated when for example Kleft murdered the tribes for the territory of manhattan (without permission)

Scale escalated when tribes would ally with colonists against competing tribes whose land the colonists were taking. This led to the extermination of tribes.

THen indians allied together against colonists and … well, at that point you have wars.

I think that we tend not to recognize that the indians nearly won many of these wars and that the losses by whites were in substantial percentages of the population.