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This is a transcription of the speech that the Four Kings made to Queen Anne on April 20, 1710. Pamphlet printed in London in 1710 which describes and depicts the Four Kings. The Four Indian Kings or Four Kings of the New World were three Mohawk chiefs from one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy and a Mohican of the Algonquian ...
Category:British people of Native American descent. Category. : British people of Native American descent. Citizens or resident of the United Kingdom of Native American descent.
Tisquantum (/ t ɪ s ˈ k w ɒ n t əm /; c. 1585 (±10 years?) – November 30, 1622 O.S.), more commonly known as Squanto (/ ˈ s k w ɒ n t oʊ /), was a member of the Patuxet tribe of Wampanoags, best known for being an early liaison between the Native American population in Southern New England and the Mayflower Pilgrims who made their settlement at the site of Tisquantum's former summer ...
Pocahontas (US: / ˌpoʊkəˈhɒntəs / ⓘ, UK: / ˌpɒk -/; born Amonute, [ 1 ] also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief ...
Samoset. Samoset (also Somerset, c. 1590 – c. 1653) was an Abenaki sagamore and the first American Indian to make contact with the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in New England. He startled the colonists on March 16, 1621 by walking into Plymouth Colony and greeting them in English, saying "Welcome, Englishmen." [1]
By using various kinds of native corn (maize), beans and squash, southern New England natives were able to improve their diet to such a degree that their population increased and they reached a density of 287 people per 100 square miles as opposed to 41 in the north. [14]
Wars of Restoration England. King Philip's War (sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion) [4] was an armed conflict in 1675–1676 between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands against the English New England Colonies and their indigenous allies.
Naumkeag is a historical tribe of Eastern Algonquian -speaking Native American people who lived in northeastern Massachusetts. They controlled most of the territory from the Charles River to the Merrimack River at the time of the Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640). Naumkeag is also the term for a Native American settlement at the ...