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Native Americans Resentment Of The English In The 1600's
The Native Americans resentment of the English has been building up since the 1600’s. In 1675-1678 the Native Americans tried to drive out the English settlers for the last time. A sequence of events leads to an outbreak called, The King Philips War, led by a Pokunoket chief named Metacom. The war lead to a decline in many Native American tribes and suffered more oppression in the hands of the English settlers.
Since the founding of Jamestown in 1607 the relationship between the English colonist and the Native Americans was delicate. The greatest troubles between the two groups was land, the colonists didn’t understand the English view of land ownership. The English believed that they owned the land and it didn’t belong to anyone else, land

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