Category Mystic village (Connecticut)

December 6, 2021 / Posted in  Cross-dressing, English Puritans, Halloween, History of USA, John Winthrop (Gov.), Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Mystic village (Connecticut), Native Americans, Ousamequin (Chief of Wampanoag), Pequot Massacre, Pequot tribe, ragamuffins, Religious fundamentalists, Terrorist attacks, Thanksgiving, white privilege, white supremacy racism

In the summer of 1637, an armed force of English Puritans led an attack on the fortified Pequot village of Mystic in Connecticut, resulting in the deaths of around 500 Native American men, women, and children, though some estimate the numbers were higher.¹ A pre-dawn attack on Mystic Fort that left 500 adults and children of the Pequot tribe dead, the Pequot Massacre (or the “Mystic Massacre”)² was the first defeat of the Pequot people by the English in the Pequot War, a three-year war instigated by the Puritans to seize the tribe’s traditional land.³

Captain Masons attack on the Pequots fortified village 1637 (hand-colored-woodcut-MYPJ5H)

The Pequot War is described in the new young reader’s version of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States...