Episcopalians in the Commonwealth will mark the beginning of the 350th anniversary of Metacomet’s Rebellion (King Philip's War) with a sacred journey on Monday, October 13, to Deer Island, MA – the internment site where hundreds of Native people died from exposure and starvation in the winter of 1675 - 1676. This spiritual experience of […]
Brad Lopes is a citizen of the Aquinnah Wôpanâak Tribe. He serves as the Education & Outreach Coordinator for the ACC and Program Manager for the Native American Teacher Retention Initiative (NATRI) with the Mashpee Wampanoag Education Department. As a certified educator in Wabanaki homelands (grades 5–12), Brad provides professional development on teaching Indigenous studies […]
Join us for a virtual discussion of The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore. Copies of the book will be available at the Bacon Free Library. For details on how to attend this virtual meeting via Zoom, please contact director@natickhistoricalsociety.org The Zoom link to the discussion will […]
In recognition of the 350th anniversary of King Philip’s War (2025-2026), the Old Colony History Museum (OCHM) continues the story of the complicated conflict from the perspective of the local native peoples. King Philip’s loyal ally, Weetamoo, was one of the “best-documented female leaders of the colonial period.” Dr. Gina M. Martino, Associate Professor of History […]
Join the Coventry Public Library for a special presentation on the history of King Philip's War with Marilyn Harris, a researcher and docent at Smith's Castle in North Kingstown. To many today, the names "Metacom," "Narragansett," and "The Great Swamp" are merely markers on highway signs or names on a map. But in 1675, they […]
In 1675, war broke out in Rhode Island when Native people fired on a handful of colonists, killing a young English man. Or so goes the story. If you're one of the relatively few people in the US who have heard of King Phillip's War, this is probably all you know. Or perhaps your Massachusetts […]
Is King Philip’s War really part of the past? Four Indigenous speakers tell us that it’s still deeply present. People who are not Indigenous often think of Metacom’s Resistance – more commonly known as King Philip’s War – if they know of it - as part of a distant past. If we have read children’s […]
One of the lesser-known aspects of the War for New England (King Philip’s War) was the intentional campaign to enslave Native peoples. The war unleashed multiple attempts to capture and force into servitude Indigenous men, women, and children alike. This included Native men who armed themselves to defend their homelands, but it also included non-combatants, […]
Whose story predominates? Ever since its publication in 1682 as The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative - with its harrowing account of capture, flight and detention as well as the death of her child - has shaped the mainstream understanding of King Philip's War. In this view, cruel and savage Native people […]
Why don't we know about King Philip's War? Because, says Tricia Peone, historians from Increase Mather to Edward Everett wrote the histories Why don’t most of us know much, if anything, about King Phillip’s War? Tricia Peone, project director of the Congregational Library's New England's Hidden Histories project, looks at legacy and memory in the […]