They started preaching that the Native Americans were satanic, whereas the Pilgrims didn’t have these preconceptions. After the Anne Hutchinson affair, ministers started to see her as a sign that Satan lurked in the wilderness. That’s a massive number, and they were more powerful and wealthier than the Pilgrims. Twenty thousand arrived in New England between 16.
Ideas: How did the arrival of the Puritans in Boston and the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 change the dynamic between the Pilgrims and Native Americans?įraser: The people who arrived in 1630 in huge numbers were much more opinionated and less open-minded than the Pilgrims. Massasoit was always going to want to help the Pilgrims, but he particularly wanted to do so because Edward saved him.
Edward actually saved Massasoit’s life by giving him chicken soup when he was sick, and an extraordinary, very tender friendship arose between the two. He wanted European technology to guard against the Narragansett, who had become the dominant tribe after a terrible plague wiped out much of the Pokanoket. Ideas: What drew Massasoit to become friends with Winslow and help the Pilgrims?įraser: Massasoit needed the Pilgrims just as much as they needed him. He was so interested in the Native Americans and wanted to know what their words meant. Although Edward said he was not a very good linguist, all the experts say he clearly was. Some Native Americans knew English as well, and some actually lived in Plymouth town. Fraser: One of the Pilgrims, Stephen Hopkins, had learned a bit of Algonquin, and John Smith’s “A Description of New England” also had a vocabulary list that served as a starting point.
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