Aim #7: What was the significance of King Philip’s War and the Pueblo

Revolt (Popes Rebellion)?

(I) King Philip’s War (Metacom’s war): 1675-1678

a. before the war1. There was a level of peace between colonists and Wampanoag Indians2. NA wanted to live in harmony with colonists3. Colonial encroachment led Metacom to resist4. Eventually , colonists outnumbered Natives

B. Effects of the War1. Metacom captured and killed2. Many Natives killed or sold into slavery in the West Indies3. Reinforced view of Natives as savages4. Resistance by Natives towards colonists decreased5. Colonists kept expanding

Church ordered Philip’s body to pulled up to higher ground to begin the act of his mutilation. His body was beheaded and dismembered. Quartered, Church picked four nearby trees and ordered four pieces of philip’s body to be tied to them for the birds to pluck. His hand was given to Alderman as a trophy of the kill. Philip’s hand was very unique. It had been disfigured when a pistol misfired years before. Alderman took the mamed hand happily and later would place it in a jar preserved with rum. Alderman would take the jar to taverns where he would allow the owners to display it in exchange for free drinks.

Philip’s head was spiked and proudly carried through the steets of Plymouth before it would meet it’s final resting place upon Plymouth Colony Fort, now Burial Hill Cemetery. It would soon be joined by the heads of Chief Anawan and Tispaquin. How long the other Wompanoag leader’s heads remained displayed on the fort is unknown. But we know that Philip’s head remained on the fort for at least 25 years. As if sight of Philip’s skull was not horrific enough, one day Cotton Mather removed the jawbone, to keep “the devil from speaking from the grave.” Historian’s estimate that King Philip was 38 at the time of his murder.

And now for your daily dose of “eww”

Key Concept 2.2, II, B: “Spanish colonizing efforts in North America, particularly after the Pueblo Revolt, saw an accommodation with some aspects of American Indian culture; by contrast, conflict with American Indians tended to reinforce English colonists’ worldviews on land and gender roles.”Page 30 of the Curriculum framework

The Pueblo Revolt was a watershed event in Spanish colonization Since it is mentioned specifically, you should be

very familiar with it

The New Curriculum And The Pueblo Revolt

Pueblos:Native Americans that were located in Rio

Grande region of the southwestern US (New Mexico, Arizona)

Pueblo is Spanish for town; named after their distinct buildings

Don Juan de Onate defeated the PueblosSpanish established Santa Fe in 1610

Spanish ruled the Pueblos harshly2,000 Spanish and 30,000 Pueblos

Background Info

(I) Why did it occur?a. Spanish priests and government suppressed Native practices that were inconsistent with Christianityb. Spanish demanded tribute and labor from Natives

(II) What happened?a. Pope (Native religious leader) killed hundreds and forced Spanish to fleeb. Spain regained control in 1696

(III) Significance?a. Spanish sought to religiously assimilate the Nativesb. Pueblos were given more freedoms from the Spanish

The Rebellion (1680)