New England's First Conflict - The Pequot War, Part 1: Origins
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- An educational video recounting the origins of the Pequot War, a conflict that changed New England forever. An important chapter in American history, it is rarely covered extensively by schools. Please enjoy, and feel free to ask me any questions about the story! It can be overwhelming at times, but is extremely exciting :)
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Bibliography at bottom of description
AUTHOR’S NOTE
This video acts as a ‘sequel’ to the First Thanksgiving, taking place in the decade after the famous feast. More important players are introduced, such as John Winthrop Sr. and Uncas of the Mohegans, but Plymouth colony is still alive.
Yet again, I was obliged to leave out many details due to time constraints, but please feel free to leave a comment asking about anything that may not have been clear in the video!
Sources
Andrews, Charles M. The Colonial Period of American History. vol. 2. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1936.
Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Charles Deane. Boston: Privately printed, 1856.
Burton, William, and Richard Lowenthal. “The First of the Mohegans.” American Ethnologist (June, 1984).
GRANDJEAN, KATHERINE A. "The Long Wake of the Pequot War." Early American Studies 9, no. 2 (2011): 379-411. www.jstor.org/s....
STERN, JESSICA R. "A Key into The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution: Roger Williams, the Pequot War, and the Origins of Toleration in America." Early American Studies 9, no. 3 (2011): 576-616. www.jstor.org/s....
Cave, Alfred A. The Pequot War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
Cave, Alfred A. "Who Killed John Stone? A Note on the Origins of the Pequot War." The William and Mary Quarterly 49, no. 3 (1992)
DeForest, John W. History of the Indians of Connecticut from the Earliest Known Period to 1850. Hartford, Connecticut: 1851.
Dincauze, Dena F. “A Capsule Prehistory of Southern New England.” In The Pequots in Southern New England; The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation, edited by Laurence M. Hauptman and James D. Wherry, 19-32. Norman: Oklahoma Press, 1990.
Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.
Hubbard, William. The History of the Indian Wars in New England from the First Settlement to the Termination of the War with King Philip, in 1677, from the Original Work, by the Rev. William Hubbard, ed. Samuel G. Drake. Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1865.
Jennings, Francis. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest. New Work: W.W Norton, 1976.
Johnson, Michael G and Richard Hook(Illustrations). American Woodland Indians. London: Osprey Publishing, 1990.
Katz, Steven T. "The Pequot War Reconsidered." The New England Quarterly 64, no. 2 (1991): 206-24. doi:10.2307/366121.
Oberg, Michael Leroy. Uncas; First of the Mohegans. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003.
O’Callaghan, E.B. History of New Netherland; or, New York Under the Dutch. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1846.
Orr, Charles. History of the Pequot War: The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent, and Gardener. 1897.
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Starna, William A. “The Pequots in the Early Seventeenth Century.” In The Pequots in Southern New England; The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation, edited by Laurence M. Hauptman and James D. Wherry, 33-47.
Vaughn, Alden T. New England Frontier; Puritans and Indians 1620-1675. Third Edition. University of Oklahoma: 1995.
Williams, Roger. Letters of Roger Williams, 1632-1682, ed. John Russell Bartlett. Providence, 1874.
Winthrop, John, Sr. Winthrop’s Journal, “History of New England,” 1630-1649, ed. James Kendall Hosmer. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1908.
Winthrop, John, Sr., ed. John Beardsley. “A Model of Christian Charity.” The Winthrop Society Quarterly, 1997.
Winthrop, John, Jr. Winthrop Papers vol. 3. The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1943.
Sounds
"Bell, Candle Damper, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (wampum ding)
“Wink.aif” by bennychico11 (www.redlabaudio...) of Freesound.org (wink)
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Various sound effects from Freesounds.org
All music created by myself, in addition to the song "Catch Me" by Cape Kidnappers
I love how fair and unbiased this stuff is compared to what we learn in school
There are no victims and no criminals, just humans
@@vincenzorutigliano5435 humans can be both and talking about it is not simply hating on the past, but analyzing history to learn from it.
@@angeliparraguirre7329 I get what you say but we can't read history with the same lens that we see the present.
@@vincenzorutigliano5435 i didn't mean the same lens. We know times change and so things can becone, dare i say, relative.
Everyone's ancestors are guilty. The woke right now are just clambering for clout by conveniently choosing a good and bad guy
I’ve been waiting for a whole year. The content is so good I really hope this isn’t an annual thing. Please.
So sorry for the long wait! I will be releasing them more quickly than annually, I promise! I already have started the research for my next vid :)
Uncivil History awesome, keep it up. I’ll be here for it.
@@UncivilHistory I love your videos, they give good insight to U.S. history that was glossed over. Sorry to ask, but is the reason why it takes a long time is b/c the individual histories and accounts are hard to track down?....essentially you're becoming an historian by trade.
@@matpikachu They are not necessarily hard to track down, but I try to read as many primary and secondary sources as possible before starting the script. So there are MANY reasons it takes a long time, for example: research, script, storyboard, and last but definitely NOT least, the actual animating :)
@@UncivilHistory Oh, ok. Thanks, keep up the great work! (I have an education channel of my own and I know it can be a rough ride)
The quality of the content you make is beyond the word valuable, I thought your account was dead I received a notification for this video. If it takes you this long to make this from of great content. Keep doing it!
Thanks so much for the encouraging words!
Great video. Thanks for the hard work.
Ay ur back
Great video!
Mad Jack Oldham was my Great, Great, Great etc. etc. etc grandfather. The children taken were his two nephews. It's is believed that Mad Jack instigated and led to his death and the theft of his ship. You should look him up. Very interesting history.
Yes
Where did you get some of these weird pronunciations? Narraganset? Winthrop?
I’d kill to have a Game of Thrones style show following the true story of native Americans and early European colonizers
"kill"? I see what you did there. =D
And tell the truth starting in 1619 not 1776!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
@@larry1824 You're absolutely right that it is important we as history educators tell the story of the Portuguese pirate ship that captured enslaved Africans from Spain and sold them to the Jamestown colony in 1619. We also need to tell the story of how the Atlantic Slave Trade began in the 1400s before then. But we also need to not get carried away. The Portuguese Pirates and English tobacco planters in 1619 had absolutely zero thought about starting a new country. All the pirates cared about was collecting the money and sailing out in search of their next victims. The English planters were still loyal to English King James I, and made that clear in the first meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses that same year. In no way did anyone involved in the inhumane transfer of trafficked humans in 1619 think they were starting a nation called the United States. However, the delegates of the 2nd Continental Congress 157 years later in 1776 absolutely believed and knew they were starting a new nation called the United States. Now, we absolutely need to tell how Washington could have ended all slavery in the new United States by just putting it in a letter to all the states in 1783, after the War for Independence had ended. He could have again while president from 1789-1797. President Adams could have as well, since he and Federalists from northern states controlled the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. Heck! Jefferson, though famously owning slaves openly declared it evil and a contradiction--and he was president for another 8 years from 1801-1809! There's no excuse for any of them to have not ended slavery when they could have. But, I don't think we need to declare that America started in 1619, because nobody in 1619 was even thinking about founding a new nation at that time. What are your thoughts on this?
@@larry1824 Hopefully you're not referring to the racist narrative of 1619 that was quickly debunked. Always tell the truth with history. The problem is, most people who see themselves as "victims of history" don't like their own 'villainous' history.
Am I late
I love this please don't make me wait a whole year though lol
Tdlr: Both the Europeans and the Natives had rival nations even if they were the same race (English and Dutch, Pequot and Narragansett) and had alliances with each other but some of them were broken off because of political interest. Both the Europeans and the Natives had ulterior motives and played political games. The Natives were intelligent and has their own interests and schemes in mind. It's not always as simple as the "bad, evil Europeans" and "poor, defenseless, clueless Natives".
the quality of the art is AMAZING
See you all next year for the next video.
Hahahaha...yeah...next one won't take as long. Sorry, I am constantly traveling around the world and, well, life happens.
@@UncivilHistory By all means, after just finishing watching the video I would gladly make a Thanksgiving tradition of watching a video this well researched. You even have all the source in the description. Good stuff, I'll happily await the next video.
@@UncivilHistory its been a year already
@@hi-am-pat2k176 So sorry! I am running behind on this one due to life...it will be coming soon! I am working on it as we speak
@@UncivilHistory Great Job!👏 I’m looking forward to the next videob
This is some of the most AMAZING content I've EVER discovered in history information. Thank you SO MUCH for citing sources, animating, and everything!!! 😇🙏💓 This is the au courant of modern social media information sharing! (:
Quality > Quantity
Thank you. I'm glad you appreciate this :)
Welp I'll see you all next year lads
Ayeeeee finally! Glad to see a new vid man!
Incredibly well versed, balanced, and suspenseful historical commentary. I hope that you will continue to be encouraged to produce more of this well researched history so succinctly summarized. Bravo. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for your kind words! I promise more is to come. I am so happy you like my style and I will do my best in future videos!
So you will upload yearly every Thanksgiving? Strong message.
More often than once a year this time, I hope!
@@UncivilHistory Uhhhh
@@UncivilHistory PLS PART 2 WE NEED ITT
The wars were mostly based on crops, props, valuables, values, and other kinds of wants and needs
Holy crap this was 100% informative, interesting, and the cartoon design was amazing.
This guy needs a patreon and we can give him a team
So the current Americans are people from Europe
No shit
Thank you so much for uploading. The content is great!
Thank you! More is coming :)
bro idk why you dont get more views, this is quality shit.
Pre-US and Canadian North American history is so fascinating. I wish more of it was taught in schools.
Oh geez
Omg I've waited exactly one year since the last thanksgiving!!! I love you guys
Thx
The Narraganset got a raw deal, their demise would strengthen other tribes resolve to not capitulate to the Europeans. Tecumseh mentioned them in his Pan-Indian unification speech to a host of other chiefs years later.
Please do Little Turtle’s war at some point.
Yes they did! More on Miantonomo and the fate of the Narragansett in Part 3..I would love to eventually get to Little Turtle; first Metacom and then on to the 18th century!
My high school US History students love your videos. Solid content!
I love the animation and the content keep it up. You're gonna be big someday
It’s already been more than a year. We want part 2 to come soon, and a different upload schedule. This yearly one video upload is kind of ridiculous, especially for this kind of channel.
Since the animation is so amazing I could understand like a bi monthly upload schedule but once a year is just unheard of
A year went so fast woah, it felt like yesterday i discovered the channel
I REALLY hope I produce more quickly. Since I am one person and life gets in the way, it is difficult to make detailed videos quickly, but I will try more!
Uncivil History dont worry take your time, I still enjoy the videos dude. Just don’t overwork yourself :)
RIP Pequota
I just discovered this video as I was trying to piece together my Puritain and Native American ancestry before Thanksgiving. My ancestor travelled on the Old Connecticut Trail from Boston to Hartford. Maybe we should call it Forgiveness Day. It's a sad history.
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Are you still Alive if you're alive pls upload a video it has been 1 year now
Only two videos on this channel!? This needs to change. Great quality videos IMHO
do you draw your own video art?
Yes, I do all the research, script, storyboard, animation, and music. That's why it takes so long to produce these animations!
@@UncivilHistory I love the old style total war diplomacy menu ; )
@@Dlw-bz3wj Haha I'm glad someone caught that!
Nice, glad to see more from you.
Finally, a new video!
Springfield was also one of these towns. Now the largest city in western New England
why did you make Tatubem bald? Native American men rarely go bald!
I need to make my characters look as distinguished as possible, and I thought it would be a unique look. But maybe Ahmedsus4lil is right; it is possible he shaved the top of his head! This was not an unusual practice in Algonquian culture.
Oh I didn't know, thanks for explaining!
Fascinating formerly forbidden history made liberated!
The extremely dirty territory wars of our colonial past. Its crazy how the school teachers glaze over this.
Im sure youre a busy guy. But i share the sentiments of many here. The vids youve made so far are easily the most digestable history lessons ive seen yet. Better than anything ive seen in school.
Wow, thank you so much! Yes I am quite busy but this is my passion so I want to be better with my speed and upload more often. I am so happy you like these videos, and comments like yours are what keep me going!
Excellent - Much detail but brief. English were masters in making Treaties & Buying Land. Usually, they never kept the Treaties and/or negotiated them with anyone regardless of Native Protocol . Many Natives would accept " Payment " from the English for Land Use expecting that Natives would also continue use. Permanent Building on Land was an English Condition for Ownership of Land - this Concept was not ingrained into the Native Mind. This war was the beginning of Native Relations and how the WASP would " Negotiate " with Native Americans for the next 400 years. Thanks.
i love the detail of the englishman from endicott's arrival at block island - the soldier who got shot at, the arrow ricocheting off the helmet. there's a wonderful source my girlfriend showed me of an englishman fighting with his wife about whether or not to wear a helmet (imagine today, "you were right, dear, it was a good thing i brought my coat because it started raining, should've listened to you)
Yes! Haha wow I am so happy someone caught that! Yes, this is Captain Underhill who only wore his helmet because his wife insisted! He writes 2 full pages about it in his memoirs, and he also mentions the man next to him who gets shot through the neck. Luckily, his stiff collar kept the arrow from hitting anything vital, so he survived :) I am so happy you caught that!
@@UncivilHistory it's such wonderful little episode of history - illustrates so much humanity between Captain and Mistress Underhill. You can easily imagine how that interaction played out between the two in their home before Underhill joined Endicott
keep up the good work! I'm amazed at the detail and scholarship that goes into your work ! I used to be a pilgrim at plimoth plantation, so i'm pleased to see your respect for the material and history
@@louissparks76 Thank you, I will continue to do my best! That's awesome that you were a pilgrim, not many people have delved as deeply as you have in this history, I am sure!
Mrs. Gardiner: You can go pillaging all you want but you HAVE TO WEAR A HELMET!
1 YEAR I swear to god you’ll be huge do this more often fam I’m dying to see mroe
Thanks! A weekly post is impossible because I do everything myself, so it takes months for this kind of production.
Uncivil History jeez if you can do something smaller scale it’s cool litterally This was so will done and so vivid I’m so mad you don’t have anymore videos😂 I’ll deadass binge watch just these two
@@UncivilHistory omg really?
Hi
An excellent video and perfect for my history class, clear, concise, interesting and fairly non biased. Its well worth subscribing even if its one video per year the quality is worth the wait.
thank so much!! I am running behind on Part 2 one due to life getting in the way...it will be coming soon! I am working on it as we speak, I am glad you are patient and enjoy the quality :)
From the entire team at bad crayfish, which is mostly you, we would like to say congratulations
What an honor! Thank you, other half of Bad Crayfish (the better half). May your knights ride valiant steeds in the West forever
Probably the highest quality animated history channel there is
Do you only publish on thanksgiving?
Hahaha hopefully not! I try to work as fast as I can, but I need to make money to eat, and animating doesn't quite cut it :/
@@UncivilHistory lol I bet
I love these animations
YOU WILL BE A SUCCESSFUL TH-camR
So, what is it about John Stone that makes people think he's worth avenging again?
MORE VIDEOS!
Lies, these Indigenous were slaughtered! 🤦🏽♂️😒
Well it’s about godam time 😂
Cool video, see you guys next Thanksgiving
History like this is so interresting and stinking complicated. This war started because of lies, misunderstandings and cultural differences from all sides. Pinpointing the bad guy is quite difficult. And boy do I like finding the bad guy of a war!
I couldn't agree with you more! That's what makes history so interesting; people do things for a plethora of reasons, and nobody does evil for evil's sake. The Anglo-Pequot War is a great example of things gone wrong in a tragic way.
@@UncivilHistory why you censor my previous comment?
@@jeremykaleschenkoikov6993 Did I? I'm not sure I did! Sorry if I did, it was not intentional. What was the comment? Please feel free to write it again I really don't remember censoring it :(
Looks like it’s been around a year. Hoping for a new animation soon
So sorry! I am running behind on this one due to life...it will be coming soon! I am working on it as we speak
I need more wampum, fire water, Iron skillet.
Glad to see you posting! I subscribed to your channel a while back, based solely on the strength of your singular video about Thanksgiving. Keep up the good work and don't be such a stranger between posts. BTW, do you animate your own videos? What software do you use? Just curious. Take care and enjoy your holiday. :)
Thank you! Yes I use Harmony Toon Boom to create my animations, and I do all of it myself (that's why it takes so long for me to upload). I will be trying to upload quicker from now on :)
@@UncivilHistory I appreciate the content you make, and I must ask, do you make these by yourself, or is "Pani" a team or group of sorts?
@@UncivilHistory Wow, that is a lot of work! Cool that you are an artist AND a historian, though. I appreciate the level of work that you put into your uploads. Please, keep at it. Take care and happy holidays! 😁👍
@@thexman-jk4ht Haha Pani is one man, it is my name. That is why it takes so long; I do it all myself.
The animation is amazing.
Buddy your animations just get hotter, make an paetron to inactivate to incourage yourself, chanels that talk about renaissance and 16/17 century specifically are in leak
Hmm good point! Ugh I have SO much I have to jump on, and Patreon is one of those things. Perhaps I will get going faster on that, thanks!
Enjoyed the history and the art!
Thank you so much!
YES I’ve been waiting for a year I’m soooo happy!
Pequot, Narragansett and Massachusetts.
I took AP World History as a HS Sophomore and I have a suggestion, is it possible to look into the history of the Spanish settlement of Hispaniola when you are finished with your New England content?
Absolutely! I made a Columbus video in 2013 that I'm going to revamp, and after I will do a bit more of Spanish colonization, on Hispaniola and beyond. I would love to do it all, to be honest!
This content is so good, when will the next vid be?
HEMP!
Nice. I really think you can be a decent size history channel on TH-cam. Your videos are both informative and very good art quality.
Thank you! But that's the difficult part about becoming a decent size history channel; it's much easier to make half-baked animations with much less research. I am trying to make the BEST possible videos, so serious learners can learn and be entertained. Because I am one person, it makes it all the more difficult. But comments like your are encouraging, so thank you! I will keep it up :)
Hi! I'm a student and this is my assigned research topic. Thank you so much for explaining it well! This is so useful.
Great video. I just discovered this and subscribed only to check for other videos and find only two, yearly it seems. Hope there's gonna be more.
Happy Thanksgiving Americans.🇺🇸
From 🇬🇧
history is so much more interesting and enjoyable this way.
I know, right??
this animation is amazing.
I've never seen anything like it!
*imagine Australians just vibing*
Finally a video about my ancestors the Pequot tribe.
I doubt your Pequot
@@Talktopics2000 Doubt all you like. That's my ancestry.
The Natives looks like me I thought they look more Asian
They are you
Iroquois and Acadian.
Fantastic!
I love the animations, it reminds me of the point-and-click adventure games of the 90s.
Pequots VS M.B.C.
Ok welp see you all in a year or two. Thanks for the vids UnCivil!
Found out John Stone is part of my father's family tree... Yikes.
More specifically, he was my great-great-great-great-great-great uncle.
Oh really… “wampum” womp womp… you guys realize that the bivalve mollusks actually held precious and semiprecious material… right? They weren’t just training purple shells homies… they had gold pearls rubies, crazy diamonds, nothing they had was ever common… but go ahead with the purpose shell bead story
Proud Pequot member!!! 3 facts about Pequot's being the first. 1#.Did you know Pequot's are the oldest tribe in America established in 1666. Every Tribe after that was established in the 1800s two hundred years later. 2# The first written war ever in the US was against the Pequot's. 3# The Mashantucket Pequot's was first Tribe to have they recognition and land taken away no longer can we call our self Pequot anymore, it was against the law to say you was Pequot most if not all was killed off or sold as slaves across the world. But many many many years later we got our recognition back and just the swamp lands of which we once owned. Just some fun facts
Hey! Thank you for your input. Are you really a Pequot? I would love to talk with you and learn from you. Please respond if you would be interested in talking :)
This is highly interesting and informative and I have to say thank you for that. What I don't like is the phony accent you use when pronouncing these native names and places. It really irritates me. I think it would be better if you just say it like it looks like most white people. I grew up in Plymouth county and I know some Mashpee Wompanoags and I have never heard one of them say Naddagansit..... Just saying. It sounds dumb
And the British sent their convict problems to America and Australia, mostly America.
Don't ever let the British penal colony cover Native American history, indeed.
When a white army battles Indians and wins, it is called a great victory, but if they lose it is called a massacre.- Chiksika, Shawnee
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I need one if these all the way thru king Phillips war. Sudbury , brook, marlborough, swamp fight.
Comon dude. Theres literally 100 of us dying to see it. Lol.
I grew up in the town where the first massacre took place, Mystic CT. Not once was the story of the massacre of the Pequots ever mentioned in school. There had been a statue erected in honor of the guy who lead the attack on the Pequots, John Mason, but it was rightly taken down in the 90’s. The Pequots have their own casino now, as do the Mohegans.
So glad this channel uploaded again!
Me too, finally!
This is so awesome! Keep up the good work, can't wait for part two!
Kinda weird seeing Penobscot over Passamaquoddy land
P.s. I’m a Passamaquoddy
Looks like the notification bell finally paid off
I see the repeating theme is that, initially we start out fine and Handy dandy. People are not inherently bad, they just fuck up big time. This is where good philosophy would be perfect. If everyone was more philosphical wise and humble they could have co-existed well! But they lacked philosophy. That's my opinion. They weren't wise, and stupidity gets in the way for everyone.
You need more video(s) I like this channel.🤔
Wow nice art and history video
Thank you! And yes, I enjoy doing it right :)
Holy crap this is a fantastic video!! You deserve way, way more subs