MASSACRE

1. How would you describe relationships between the Puritan settlers and the Pequot before the Pequot War? They were completely different and did not share things in common at all.

Why do you think these relationships changed so quickly? Because they could not get along and the English gave the Pequot many diseases, which destroyed the population.

2. Before the arrival of the British, what was the status of the Pequot in the Connecticut River Valley? Because it was the most fertile land and they controlled most of it for more supplies.

How would you describe their relationships with other Native American tribes? They were the strongest physical group and the strongest political group as well. They had the highest population.

3. Why did the Puritans travel to the New World? For more land and a new life.

What were their intentions upon arrival? To spread the Christian church and purify it.

4. Compare and contrast Puritan and Pequot ideas about the following: land and property, division of labor and gender, and warfare? Give examples to back up your discussion. Land the English thought of actually controlling it and Indians just moved and thought it would be there when they get back. Division the women in the native tribes were equals and did the work and the men did nothing. While the Puritans men were always working and not lazy, while the women had no saying and just cooked and did house work. The Indians had rules that they had to follow while the English didn’t care.

5. In this program, one commentator suggests that the Dutch colonists favored trade, while the British prioritized land. How did the difference in focus shape their interactions with Native Americans, and their goals in the New World?

If the Dutch just wanted trade then they could have gotten along with the Indians but the British just wanted to take the land so they had to exterminate the Indians some how.

6. Why were British settlers unhappy with the way Pequot organized their economy and relationship to the land? Do you think there was any validity to their concerns? Because the Indians traveled and moved everywhere while the English stayed in a certain place

Who do you think, if anyone, ultimately had the right to decide who should control the land?

The Indians because they were the ones who had the land before the puritans

7. Why do you think the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes fought with the Puritans against the Pequot? The Indians wanted to be stronger and better and also maybe want more land or supplies. Were you surprised by their actions? No because they had some enemies and they were the Pequot. The Narragansett and Mohegan wanted to be stronger so they attacked with the English.

8. One commentator, Tall Oak, ponders how the early colonies would have been different if the Puritans had come in peace. How would you answer this question?  Do you think a different outcome in relations between the Pequot and the Puritans was possible? It would have been friendly and the puritans would have had an ally. Because they still could have lived together with different beliefs and lives.

9. How did the Pequot manage to resurrect their community hundreds of years after the massacre? Robin became the governor’s son friend, and he gave them land to restart to make a new.

How do you think it would feel to go from devastation to prosperity? It would feel great because it would fell like something new like it was remade they gained there property.

10. Describe the details of the 1638 Treaty of Hartford, which ended the war.

Why was the treaty considered to be cultural genocide for the Pequot? The treaty destroyed everything from language to culture

11. What sources do you think historians used in order to recount the story of the massacre at Mystic? What sources might you use if you were trying to create a documentary about the early colonies? Do you think this documentary offers a balanced and informed view of the massacre? Discuss.  

Yes it does because they got an Indian who was told stories of it and other historians who figured out how the Indians were massacred from document.

12. How did the massacre at Mystic change the United States?

To kill of the Indians to take there land and to genocide everyone and everything to the tribe