John Mason and Captain John Underhill of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Militia launch a genocidal night attack on May 26, along with Mohegan and Narragansett allies. They attack a large Pequot village on the Mystic River, where over 700 men, women, and children of the Pequot Tribe are gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival. In the predawn hours they are surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries, who order them to come outside, where they are shot or clubbed to death. Those huddled inside the longhouse, mostly women and children, are burned alive. Troops use dogs to hunt down survivors to carry out tortures and executions or send into slavery (Hixson, 2013). The day after the massacre, the Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony declares “a day of Thanksgiving, thanking God that they had eliminated over 700 men, women, and children” (Oxendine, 2019; Bradford, 1654).