onorable thing. It means that you don't die for some petty cause but you die for the divine right of God. Also on page 105 a Native American stated "We will first take away your shelter, then your beliefs, and only then will we take your lives, leaving you, not as men, but as bare, butchered flesh." This is exactly was the Native Americans tried to do. They first raided towns and houses, taking not only the shelter away from the colonist but their lives. Then they started to chip away at their beliefs, by provoking them like the in the passage in the paragraph above. This tactic was very successful at the beginning and proved that the colonist had doubts about the war.Most colonists had doubts about the war from the start but some found a way to escape and justify it. They wrote stories and self-experiences about the war. Many writings came out of that time about the war. Most of them were embellished stories from people that hadn't even been there. They made a point to write about it as if they were very civilized people like the English and the Indians were beast not men seen on page 64 "The Impious actts off thes Infernal bests; actted abroad & in ther helish nests; would swell a volum to a magnitud." The author Philip Walker made sure to incorporate as much about a beast as possible. Jill Lepore put this in her book not just to show the way that New England writers wrote about the Native Americans because there are many other instances she could have used but this one showed hatred and disgust. He had a pure hatred for them that shown through his writing. Other writings as in the first part of the book, the Circle, were about the Indian brutality and how they tried to separate themselves from the barbarism that the Indians exposed. After the story of a young Indian being tortured by another group of Indians Lepore writes But if both the sufferer and his tormentors are Indians, where, in this scene are the English? (pg 4). She writes...
