Native American Experiences During King Philip's War

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The most interesting and ironic evidence that Mary Rolandson’s narrative provides about the Native American experience during the King Phillip’s War can best be described in a quote in the article “Come Along With US”. “ The Lasting legacy of Mary Rolandson’s dramatic, eloquent, and fantastically popular narrative of captivity and redemption is the nearly complete veil it has unwittingly placed over the experiences of bondage endured by Algonquin Indians during the King Phillips War.” In Mary Rolandson’s account we only read of all the hardships and trials that Mary underwent. From the fear of loosing her life to the actual fear of loosing her wounded daughter. Mary continuously tells of all her own hardships, her constant traveling, her aching legs, her hungry stomach, her water drenched shin. We never hear of the Indian hardships. We hear of the Indians laughing at Mary. But this is to be expected. For the Indians harships and suffering were part of ...

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like a Bible. The Native American experience was an experience of great hardship. The Indians had lived in the lands of Massachusetts and Rhode Island for many hundreds of years before the English came. Besides claiming land that the Indians had held as their own for so many years, the English also brought many diseases that the Indians immune systems were unfamiliar with. During the King Phillip's War, The Indians were constantly on the move. Their whole culture was uprooted. No longer able to stay in one place for very long, the Indians were forced to move constantly to avoid English attacks. Instead of hunting for their food and growing crops, much of the Indians food was found ...

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