Invasion from All Directions—Stolen Lands, Stolen Peoples 1600-1699
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1633-1635
Jesuit missionaries give Huron smallpox blankets
French Jesuit missionaries tell the Huron that if they are baptized and convert to Christianity...Read More
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1636
Mystic Massacre of the Pequot
John Mason and Captain John Underhill of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Militia launch a genocidal...Read More
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1636-1637
Pequot War and Pequot enslavement
As Puritan colonists expand beyond territorial boundaries, tensions mount between tribes and Puritan settlements. Governor...Read More
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1636
Providence Plantations established (Rhode Island)
Persecuted groups, such as Quakers and Jews, settle in the area. Progressive for its time,...Read More
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1636
Connecticut Colony established
Governor John Haynes of the Massachusetts Bay Colony leads 100 people to Hartford in 1636....Read More
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1637
“Thanksgiving Day” Massacres
On June 5, Captain Mason attacks a Pequot village near present-day Stonington and massacres the...Read More
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1638
Puritans force Quinnipiac onto the first reservation
The first reservation within the borders of the current U.S. is established by Puritans near...Read More
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1638
Captain “Indian Killer” John Underhill writes about Pequot Massacres
John Underhill’s Newes from America is the most complete contemporary published account of the Pequot...Read More
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1640
Massacre of Raritan (Staten Island)
Eighty-eight Dutch soldiers under Cornelis van Tienhoven attack a village of Raritan on Staten Island...Read More
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1641
Laws support scalping and raping and enslaving Native women
The Dutch governor of Manhattan, Willem Kieft, offers the first bounty in North America for...Read More
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1643
Campaign to exterminate Natives in New Amsterdam (Manhattan)
Governor Kieft and the West India Company military support extermination of Indians as a way...Read More
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1643
Stamford Massacre (Connecticut)
Kieft enlists Commander John Underhill to massacre a Munsee village of 500 near Stamford, Connecticut,...Read More
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1643
Massacre of Wappinger Confederacy
Manhattan’s Dutch Governor Kieft orders the massacre of the Wappinger People. Eighty Natives are “massacred...Read More
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1643
Pavonia Massacre of Lenape (New Jersey)
Hundreds of Lenape flee Mahican invaders and seek refuge in New Amsterdam. Kieft refuses and...Read More
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1644
Massapequa Massacre (New York)
John Underhill's men massacre more than 100 Indians near present-day Massapequa. Governor Willem Kieft, who...Read More
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1644
Hempstead torture and massacre
Seven Natives are alleged to have killed pigs; it later is discovered that a colonist...Read More
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1644
Pound Ridge Massacre of Lenape Indians (New York)
John Underhill, hired by the Dutch, attacks and burns a sleeping village of Lenape (possibly...Read More
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1655
Timucua rebellion and destruction
The Timucua rebel against the Spanish in a final resistance movement, after suffering huge losses...Read More
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1661
Slavery in the colonies
By 1661, slavery is legal in nine colonies; eventually it is legal in the 13...Read More
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1661
Spanish outlaw Pueblo ceremonies and destroy sacred objects
Spanish governor orders a raid of Pueblo kivas across Pueblo villages and burns sacred objects...Read More
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1661
Indians attack Spanish missions (Georgia)
Spanish missions are abandoned north of the Savannah River.
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1664
Pueblo Natives are restricted from contact with Apaches
Spanish governors declare that no “foreign” Indians may enter into Pueblos except at designated times.
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1670+
West Indies slave trade decimates southeastern tribes
Carolina traders operating out of Charles Town export an estimated 30,000 to 51,000 Native American...Read More
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1675
Great Swamp Massacre (Rhode Island)
Colonial militia and Indian allies attack a Narragansett village near South Kingstown, Rhode Island. At...Read More
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1675-1676
Virginia colonists violate peace agreement (Bacon’s Rebellion)
Colonists in western Virginia attack Nanticoke and Susquehannock villages and seize their land, despite a...Read More
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1675-1676
King Philip’s (Metacomet) War
Metacomet (King Philip) and his Indian coalition of Wampanoag, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Mohegan, and Podunk rebel...Read More
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1676
Metacomet is executed
On August 12, Captain Benjamin Church tracks down Metacomet and kills him. He mutilates his...Read More
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1676
Massacre at Occoneechee Island (Virginia)
Virginia colonist Nathaniel Bacon turns on his Occoneechee allies and destroys their village on Occoneechee...Read More
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1676
Turner Falls Massacre (Massachusetts)
Captain William Turner and 150 colonial militia volunteers attack a fishing Indian camp at present-day...Read More
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1676
Narragansett Massacre (Rhode Island)
Major Talcott and his colonist militia volunteers massacre a band of Narragansetts on Rhode Island,...Read More