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Redskins, high hats and blackfellas.(History)(Mayflower: A Voyage to War)(Book review)

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| May 01, 2007 | Murray, Robert | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

WHEN THE NATIVE AMERICANS (Indians) first came into contact with the English in Puritan New England in the seventeenth century they were awed and amazed by the things the Europeans had brought with them". Whether it was an iron plough, a musket or a windmill, they ascribed such strange inventions to a spiritual power. Gravel mining in 1913 uncovered an Indian burial ground of the time, and the dead were found to have been buried, along with Indian artefacts, with wine bottles, muskets, spoons, iron axes, kettles, bells, wool blankets, combs, scissors, hammers, horseshoes, locks, keys, hinges, knives, pewter bowls, swords, leather shoes and a jew's harp.

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