THE NATIVE LEADER WHOSE HEAD WAS DISPLAYED FOR DECADES
Winter became especially dangerous because communities had fewer opportunities to replenish supplies.
The war therefore moved beyond battlefield encounters.
It became a war against the ability of communities to continue existing independently.
This distinction matters when historians describe the aftermath.
The defeat of Metacom did not merely mean that one military leader had been removed.
It meant that many Native communities had lost the economic and political resources necessary to maintain sovereignty in the same form they had before the war.
PART TEN — METACOM’S FINAL MONTHS
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