Metacomet (King Philip) and his Indian coalition of Wampanoag, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Mohegan, and Podunk rebel against the illegal colonial land seizure, enslavement of their people, and genocidal attacks on their Peoples. They launch an attack on 52 out of 90 towns in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In response, Puritan ministers encourage their parishioners to “exterminate the savage Canaanites.” New England colonies offer bounties for Native scalps. Colonists respond by slaughtering the Narragansett and imprisoning the Wampanoag, including Christian Indians. The Nipmuck, Mohegan, and Podunk are nearly exterminated. More than 500 Wampanoags are sold into slavery in the West Indies, including Metacomet’s wife and son (Nies, 1996). By June 29, 1676, the Puritans and their governing council determine that to “express thanks for the victories in War with the Heathen Natives” they would from now on declare June 29 as an annual Day of Thanksgiving which is then celebrated in the early colonies for many years to come (Oxendine, 2019).