Pequot

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• What he rather conveniently leaves out of the equation, however, is the great mass of Pequots who have not converted to the Methodism he sees as their salvation.

  Academic text (1999)

• The very first European-Indian war in North America—that between the Pilgrims and the Pequots—shows a couple of examples of this.

  Blog text (34)

• Apess, a Pequot Indian by birth, was raised in white families from his early youth.

  Academic text (1999)

• English settlers went to war with the Pequot Indian tribe in the mid-1600s.

  Academic text (2003)

• Once Apess has fully converted to Methodism, as he tells us, he returns to the Pequot reservation at Groton, where he has some of the most fulfilling experiences of his career as a Christian, once again confirming the strong connection in his mind between Nativeness and Christianity.

  Academic text (1999)

• Although the location lacked an immediate Indian threat, Englishmen would provoke a war with the Pequots within the first decades of settlement and antagonize other Indian nations while making only halfhearted attempts at converting them to Christianity.

  Academic text (2014)

• North American peoples, such as the Powhatans, Wampanoags, Pequots, Massachusetts, Nausets, Nipmucks, and Narragansetts, also cultivated corn and had a highly developed agricultural system.

  Academic text (2002)

• Apess was born into an impoverished Pequot family in the last few years of the eighteenth century.

• English settlers went to war with the Pequot Indian tribe in the mid-1600s.

• He's not a Pequot Indian; he just works for them as chief executive officer.

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