THE NATIVE LEADER WHOSE HEAD WAS DISPLAYED FOR DECADES
Some Native groups negotiated for their survival.
Others surrendered.
Some fought on.
Metacom became increasingly isolated.
The image of the powerful sachem leading a vast Native army therefore hides the reality of his final months.
He was not commanding an intact political coalition.
He was trying to keep a shattered resistance alive.
His death near Mount Hope symbolized the collapse of that resistance.
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