THE NATIVE LEADER WHOSE HEAD WAS DISPLAYED FOR DECADES
Both sides had their own goals.
Both sides believed the relationship could serve their interests.
For a time, it worked.
But an alliance based on mutual advantage can survive only while both sides continue to believe the relationship is useful.
Over the following decades, that balance became increasingly difficult to maintain.
PART TWO — THE LAND WAS NOT EMPTY
One of the most important misunderstandings behind the later conflict concerned land.
English colonists and Native communities could use the same words—purchase, agreement, ownership, territory—while attaching very different meanings to them.
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