THE NATIVE LEADER WHOSE HEAD WAS DISPLAYED FOR DECADES
Local rivalries shaped military decisions.
This is one reason the war lasted as long as it did and ended in such a complicated way.
It was not simply Native people versus Europeans.
It was a struggle inside a multiethnic political landscape in which every community was trying to survive.
That complexity also helps explain why Metacom could not simply unite all Native peoples against the colonies.
The English had spent decades developing alliances with Native nations.
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