King Philip's War was a colonial war in which a coalition of Algonquian tribes of the Northeastern Woodlands—the Wampanoags, the Pocomtucs, the Nipmucs, and the Narragansetts—fought against the Purita
Metacom (c. 1638–1676), also known as King Philip, chief Sachem of the Wampanoag and leader of the campaign against the English colonists, as imagined by Paul Revere in 1772.
The Puritan colonists sought to convert the indigenous population to Christianity. The English missionary John Eliot led an effort to translate the Bible into Algonquian, publishing the Old Testament in 1661 and the full Eliot Indian Bible in 1663.
"King Philip's Seat", a meeting place on Mount Hope in Bristol, Rhode Island.
Site of "Nine Men's Misery" in Cumberland, Rhode Island, where Captain Pierce's troops were tortured to death
The Wampanoag, also rendered Wôpanâak, are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands currently based in southeastern Massachusetts and formerly parts of eastern Rhode Island. Their histor
King Philip's War
…King Philip's War (1675–1678) was a colonial war in which a coalition of Algonquian tribes of the Northeastern Woodlands—the Wampanoags, the Pocomtucs, the Nipmucs, and the Narragansetts—fought against the Puritan settlers of the New England Colonies and their Indian allies—the Mohegans…
Cheryl Andrews-Maltais (right), Chairperson of the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah with a MassDOT engineer
Title page of the Eliot Indian Bible (completed in 1663), a bible translated into the Massachusett language and the first Bible printed in British North America.
"Old Indian Meeting House" built in 1684 in Mashpee, Massachusetts, the oldest Indian church building in the United States