Refugees crowded into communities that were themselves vulnerable.

English troops pursued Native groups through the winter.

Disease and hunger added to the pressure.

The war was destroying the economic foundations of both societies, but Native communities were less able to absorb the losses because they had already been weakened by decades of disease, land loss, and demographic collapse.

PART SEVEN — THE NATIVE COALITION WAS NEVER SIMPLE

One of the most important things to understand about King Philip’s War is that there was no unified Native nation called “the Indians” acting as one army.

The peoples involved had their own histories.