King philip metacom biography of william
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Metacomet
Elected chief of the Wampanoag Indians
Metacomet ( – August 12, ), also known as Pometacom,[1]:&#;&#;Metacom, and by his adopted English name King Philip,[2] was sachem (elected chief) to the Wampanoag people and the second son of the sachem Massasoit. His older brother Wamsutta (or King Alexander) briefly became sachem after their father's death in However, Wamsutta also died shortly thereafter and Metacom became sachem in
His brother's widow Weetamoo, female sachem of the Pocasset, became Metacom's ally and friend for the rest of his life. It is unclear how many children they had or what happened to them. Wootonekanuske and one of their sons were sold into slavery in the West Indies following the defeat of the Native Americans in what became known as King Philip's War.[3]
Initially, Metacom sought to live in harmony with the colonists. As a sachem, he took the lead in much of his tribes' trade with the colonies. He adopt
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King Philip's War
–78 war in New 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 – between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands against the English New England Colonies and their indigenous allies. The war is named for Metacom (alternatively Metacomet), the Pokanoket chief and sachem of the Wampanoag who had adopted the English name Philip because of the friendly relations between his father Massasoit and the Plymouth Colony. The war continued in the most northern reaches of New England until the signing of the Treaty of Casco Bay on April 12, [6]
Massasoit had maintained a long-standing alliance with the colonists and Metacom (c.&#;–), his younger son, became the tribal chief in after his father's death. Metacom, however, forsook his father's alliance between the Wampanoags and the colonists after
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Eulogy of King Philip (Metacom)
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- January 26,
- Material
- Paper, Speech, Engraving
- Author/Maker
- William Apess (Pequot) (), Illman & Pilbrow (Engraver), Paradise, John, (Artist)
- Source
- A son of the forest. The experience of William Apes, a native of the forest
William Apess (Pequot) was a Methodist minister, veteran of the War of , and a leading advocate for the Mashpee Wampanoag community’s continued autonomy and self-rule in the early s. In his "Eulogy on King Philip" delivered at the Odeon lecture hall in Boston in , Apess drew parallels between King Philip's War (), also called Metacom's Rebellion, and equated Metacom to George Washington in military skill, love of country, and personal honor. Appes sought to redeem Metacom as a martyr for his people and challenge early 19th century Americans’ behavior towards Indigenous people as a continuation of long traditions of false promises, broken treaties, enslavement, and oppression. No 17th-century Indigen