Our history books continue to present our country's story in conventional patriotic terms. America being settled by courageous, white colonists who tamed a wilderness and the savages in it. With very few exceptions our society depicts these people who actually first discovered America and without whose help the colonists would not have survived, as immoral, despicable savages who needed to be removed by killing and shipping out of the country into slavery. In her book, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, Jill Lepore tells us there was another side to the story of King Philip's War. She goes beyond the actual effects of the war to discuss how language, literacy, and privilege have had lasting effects on the legacy that followed it.

In 1675, tensions between Native Americans and colonists residing in New England erupted into the brutal conflict that has come to be known as King Philip's War, the bloodiest battle in America history, in proportion to population it was also the deadliest war in American history. The English colonists wished to rid the country of the Indians in order to seiz

Lepore suggests that a significant cause of the war was the fear and ignorance the two groups had for one another. The Algonquin Indians worried that they were becoming like the Europeans because they had taken to wearing Western clothes, living in houses, and reading the bible. On the contrary, the English, far from home, had adopted Native American customs and cuisine, had stopped attending church, and had moved farther and farther inland and away from European settlement. The colonists' principal fear was being mistaken for Indians; so called "savages". The tensions between these two groups were primarily based on a fear of their changing identities.

The Name of War examines not only names, dates, and the faces of the war, but at several points, searches out elements that are rarely discussed. Lepore's book most valuably describes how the language of war effects not only the present but what will be perceived in the future. Unlike most textbooks taking a one-sided perspective from the English or colonial perspective, Lepore exaggerates how much the Indian perspective needs hearing.

Wars are usually fought for a meaningful purpose, to come to some resolution but still today 300 years after the war no resolution was achieved. Written words in American textbo

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