Blood Wars Between Puritans And American Indians

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New Englanders view the natives as in need of saving from their sinful ways and so did not embrace the natives but did rely on them for help during the early years as more Englishmen arrived in the colonies. Conflict increased a series of blood wars that were known as King Philip's war and Pequot Wars, occurring during the colonial era between the Puritans and the American Indians.

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