E/MS Unit I: Two Cultures Collide: Early Relations Between English Settlers and Indigenous People in Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies Lesson A: Native American Tribes and English Colonists in Early Massachusetts
Key Questions
- Which native people lived in what is now Massachusetts in the early 1600s?
- Where did they live?
- Where were the English settlements located prior to 1675?
- How did native people sustain themselves?
- In general, how did English settlers view native people?
- What can we learn from pre-1700 maps of Massachusetts?
STUDENT ACTIVITIES:
Primary Sources
- Document E/MS I-1:
Excerpts from the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company, March 4, 1629 - Document E/MS I-2:
Excerpts from Mourt's Relation or Journal of the Proceedings of the Plantation Settled at Plymouth in New England, 1622. - Document E/MS I-3:
Friend or Foe? Excerpt from Roger Clapp’s Journal, 1630 - Document E/MS I-4:
Trading Wampam and Goods for Land: 1636 Deed Transferring Land from Indians of Agawam to Wiliam Pynchon - Document E/MS I-5:
John Seller's A Mapp of New England, 1675. - Document E/MS I-6:
John Foster's A Map of New-England, 1677.
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