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===Death by war===

===Death by war===

Although [[Puritans first regarded  the Natives as potential friends and converts, and relations for some time were amicable. However, later developments would result in the Puritan seeing the Indians as hostile.  The murder of several colonists in late 1636 by the feared (by colonists and other Indians alike) Pequot tribe, resulted in increased alarm and hostilities. Torture of prisoners was a routine practice for most Indian tribes, and the Pequots in particular had  a reputation for cruelty and ruthlessness, and openly flayed the skin of one of their captors alive, and cut off his fingers and toes, while roasting another. Indians also engaged in cannibalism, eating certain body parts of their enemies. While the colonists sometimes engaged in torture in order to gain information, and the means of war on both sides could be brutal, the typical cruelty of warring Indians resulted in a fear and a determination to subdue them.

Although [[Puritans]] first regarded  the Natives as potential friends and converts, and relations for some time were amicable. However, later developments would result in the Puritan seeing the Indians as hostile.  The murder of several colonists in late 1636 by the feared (by colonists and other Indians alike) Pequot tribe, resulted in increased alarm and hostilities. Torture of prisoners was a routine practice for most Indian tribes, and the Pequots in particular had  a reputation for cruelty and ruthlessness, and openly flayed the skin of one of their captors alive, and cut off his fingers and toes, while roasting another. Indians also engaged in cannibalism, eating certain body parts of their enemies. While the colonists sometimes engaged in torture in order to gain information, and the means of war on both sides could be brutal, the typical cruelty of warring Indians resulted in a fear and a determination to subdue them.

   

   

King Philip’s War (1675-76) was particularly brutal, with Fifty-two of New England’s 90 towns were attacked, seventeen were razed to the ground, and 25 were pillaged. Although Boston's colonial council in Boston had declared "that none be Killed or Wounded that are Willing to surrender themselves into Custody", this would not be English "civilized warfare", and Indian deaths were even higher, and many captured Natives were executed or sold into slavery to those foreign countries. Soon, the colonists would become more like their enemies in brutality, albeit more tempered by religious restraints.

King Philip’s War (1675-76) was particularly brutal, with Fifty-two of New England’s 90 towns were attacked, seventeen were razed to the ground, and 25 were pillaged. Although Boston's colonial council in Boston had declared "that none be Killed or Wounded that are Willing to surrender themselves into Custody", this would not be English "civilized warfare", and Indian deaths were even higher, and many captured Natives were executed or sold into slavery to those foreign countries. Soon, the colonists would become more like their enemies in brutality, albeit more tempered by religious restraints.