The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . en the fight was over, out of the seven hundredPequots five were alive. Some wholesome lessons were learned from the Pequot uprising, not the least of which was a more intelligent understanding of the Indian character. The people of the New Eng- the^war ° ^^^^ colonies had labored hard to convert the Indian to Christianity, to teach him to read, and to persuade 88 THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION him to wear clothing of European fashion. The influence of thewhite man affected only the few Indians who lived about thetowns, m
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . en the fight was over, out of the seven hundredPequots five were alive. Some wholesome lessons were learned from the Pequot uprising, not the least of which was a more intelligent understanding of the Indian character. The people of the New Eng- the^war ° ^^^^ colonies had labored hard to convert the Indian to Christianity, to teach him to read, and to persuade 88 THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION him to wear clothing of European fashion. The influence of thewhite man affected only the few Indians who lived about thetowns, mainly the more shiftless and idle ones. The peoplewere rudely awakened to the fact that underneath the coat ofLondon cut there beat a heart that was thoroughly , they learned that the ability to repeat the catechismdid not root out the desire for the scalping party. After that there was an honest effort to give the Indians thefull protection of the laws of the colony, and the law was equallyprompt to punish him if he did not behave himself. Whenever. From the painting by O^rtel. John Eliot preaching to the Indians. an Indian was to be tried for a grave crime, it became the customto summon a number of Indians on the jury that tried :paratively few Indians remained about the settlements. These 3n or eight thousand Indians outside the vicinity of Massa-chusetts Bay — Narragansetts, Nipmucks, Wampanoags (or Poka-nokets), and Mohegans — were left pretty much to themselves. The Uprising of the Algonquians. 1643.— The policy of GovernorKieft in New Netherland was very exasperating to the Indiansof the Middle colonies. He took no decisive measures to preventthe sale of liquor to them, but he punished without mercy orjudgment any crime committed by a drunken Indian. He alsoattempted to tax the Indians for the protection which, he asserted, THE COLONISTS AND THE INDIANS 89 the fort at New Amsterdam gave them. In 1643 a band ofMohawks came down the Hudson Vall
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