King Philip's War and the Pueblo Revolt
Comparing King Philip’s War to The Pueblo Revolt Despite being separated by an entire continent, King Phillip’s War and The Pueblo Revolt paralleled each other in their causes, courses, and consequences. In New England, King Philip’s War was a conflict between the Wampanoag Indians and the English settlers of the Plymouth Colony from1675 to 1677. Far, far away in what is now New Mexico, the Pueblo Revolt was an uprising of Pueblo Indians against the Spanish settlers in the colony of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in 1680. Their similarities explain much about the relationships between Native Americans and European colonists at the time. Firstly, the hostile relationships between the Natives and the colonists leading up to both wars were typical of their time. The causes of both wars were to some degree land usage and religion. In the north, the Wampanoags mainly felt besieged by the Puritans expansive use of land for farming and pasture, but they also didn 't care for the way they tried to convert their members as exemplified by their friendship with Roger Williams. In the south, the Pueblos mainly felt oppressed by the way the Spaniards attempted to force their religion on them, but they also were concerned about limited land and water access due to a recent drought. Looking back it easy to see how sooner or later the mounting pressure on the indigenous peoples was bound to become too much for them to bear quietly. However, to be thorough, the events leading up to each war individually should be discussed. To begin with, it is interesting to point out that King Philip’s War is sometimes referred to as the First Indian War because it was one of the most violent events to occur in seventeenth-century Puritan New England, but that title is not necessarily accurate. From 1936 to 1937 the Pequot Indians raged war with settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The conflict began when, seeking to find a new trading partner, the Pequots agreed to give the English
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