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===New England praying Indians===

===New England praying Indians===

A once numerous class of Christian Indians existed in America known as ''praying Indians'' mainly in New England. These helped the  the [[Patriot]] cause in the American Revolution, but were treated shamefully due to distrust by most of the Colonialists during the period of [[King Phillip's War]], reducing their numbers (approx. 1100) from an estimated estimated 20 percent of Massachusetts Indians to a few hundred.  

A once numerous class of Christian Indians existed in America known as ''praying Indians'' mainly in New England. These helped the  the [[Patriot]] cause in the American Revolution, but were treated shamefully due to distrust by most of the Colonialists during the period of [[King Phillip's War]], reducing their numbers from an estimated estimated 20 percent of Massachusetts Indians to a few hundred.  

   

   

[[Roger Williams]] of [[Rhode Island]] and and Thomas Mayhew of [[Martha's Vineyard]]  were the first  English missionaries to  seek the conversion of  New England's natives, but [[John Eliot]] was much more successful, largely because of his command of the complex native  Algonquian language (spoken by many Indian nations) which was without a written tradition, but which Eliot provided and translated the Bible into.

[[Roger Williams]] of [[Rhode Island]] and and Thomas Mayhew of [[Martha's Vineyard]]  were the first  English missionaries to  seek the conversion of  New England's natives, but [[John Eliot]] was much more successful, largely because of his command of the complex native  Algonquian language (spoken by many Indian nations) which was without a written tradition, but which Eliot provided and translated the Bible into.