Wanalancet and Kancagamus :Indian strategy and leadership on the New Hampshire frontier: Historical New Hampshire / Colin G. Calloway.

Title:

Wanalancet and Kancagamus :Indian strategy and leadership on the New Hampshire frontier: Historical New Hampshire / Colin G. Calloway.

Author:

Calloway, Colin G. 1953-

Call Number:

977.8 N5321h

Publication Information:

Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1988.

Physical Description:

p. 265 - 290.

Source:

Vol. 43, No. 4 (Winter, 1988) Historical New Hampshire.

Description:

The careers of two 17th-century Indian leaders in New Hampshire - Wanalancet and Kancagamus - show how inaccurate traditional views of North American Indian leaders can be. Traditionally, Indian leaders who accommodated the English were viewed as peaceful, and those who resisted as warlike. The actions of Wanalancet and Kancagamus, leaders of the Pennacook Indians, demonstrate that war and peace were simply two extremes of a range of available strategies. When Wanalancet, the "peacemaker," withdrew his people further into Indian country in an effort to remain neutral his retreat was regarded as an act of war. In contrast, Kancagamus, regarded as a war hawk, traveled in person to see the governor of New Hampshire to plead for peace and acted as a mediator in bringing about the truce of 1690.

Language:

English.

Subjects:

Indians of North America New Hampshire. , Pennacook Indians. , Whites Relations with Indians.

People:

Wanalancet, 1619-1697. , Kancamagus.

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