In this accessible examination of colonial Indian affairs, Dacey provides a lively history of the intense cultural and territorial struggle between the Massachusetts Bay Puritans and the Eastern Algonquin Indians. In the Shadow of the Great Blue Hill describes both the increasingly aggressive efforts of the Puritans to dominate the Indians and the subsequent Indian response to the European's assault on their way of life.
Contents: First Farmers of New England; The Coming of the Boat People; Visible Saints and Pawns of Satan; Accommodation; Loss; Dreams of Expansion; The Day Breaking; If Not the Sun Rising; Between Two Wars; The Last Stand: King Philip's War; Doings and Sufferings; Aftermath; To the Victors; The Experiment Ends; A Few Acres on Brigham Hill; I Still Live.
Contents: First Farmers of New England; The Coming of the Boat People; Visible Saints and Pawns of Satan; Accommodation; Loss; Dreams of Expansion; The Day Breaking; If Not the Sun Rising; Between Two Wars; The Last Stand: King Philip's War; Doings and Sufferings; Aftermath; To the Victors; The Experiment Ends; A Few Acres on Brigham Hill; I Still Live.
