Cherokee Women in Charge: Female Power and Leadership in American Indian Nations of Eastern North America by Karen Coody Cooper

Author:Karen Coody Cooper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2022-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

Brass peace medals were presented in June 1676 to chiefs of tribes loyal to the colonies during King Philip’s War. The Massachusetts flag later depicted a similar female image (National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, catalog # 239269).

In June 1676, peace medals were awarded to tribal leaders who fought alongside the English colonists. Survivors known to have fought against the settlers were subject to enslavement or persecution, and some of the survivors fled the vicinity to reside with other tribes deeper in the wilderness. While colonist Rowlandson lived out her natural life, Weetamoo had been pulled naked and dead from the river. Her corpse was then beheaded, as had happened with her ­brother-in-law (Shattuck 2013).

The surviving Southern New England Indians were soon overwhelmed by the numbers of continually arriving colonists. Over time, Wampanoag families reemerged to ­re-settle in barren areas or islands. Some of their descendants along with Narragansett people are now employed by Plimoth Plantation in a recreated setting called Patuxet, working as living history educators to inform the public about their ancestors (see Plimoth Plantation website). Today’s Wampanoag, along with various other American Indians, treat Thanksgiving as a Day of Mourning.

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