King Philip and the war with the colonists Book

King Philip's war is a powerful story of the first contact between European settlers and New England Indians. In the beginning, Chief Massasoit and the Wampanoag Indians befriended the pilgrims of Plymouth, joining them to celebrate the first Thanksgiving dinner. But over the years, relations between colonists and Indians grew sour. After a series of provocations, Chief Massasoit's son Metacom, new chief of the Wampanoag (whom the colonists called 'King Philip'), felt honor bound to wage war on the colonists to drive them back across the seas. This conflict-known as King Philip's war-is, in a way, the first American revolution.

Examines the life and fortunes of the Wampanoag Indian leader who led an uprising against the New England colonists in the seventeenth century.