But the demographic impact on Native peoples was far greater.

Estimates vary depending on the community and the method used to calculate losses, but historians agree that the war caused extraordinary destruction among Native populations in southern New England.

Some communities lost a large proportion of their people.

Others lost their political independence.

The war also accelerated the transfer of land from Native control to colonial control.

This is why describing the conflict merely as an “Indian war” is inadequate.

It was a turning point in the transformation of New England from a region in which Native nations remained major political powers into a landscape increasingly dominated by English colonial governments.