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March, Kathleen Davidson. "Uncommon Civility: The Narragansett Indians and Roger Williams," University of Iowa, December 1985. Advisor: Wayne Franklin (11, 9)
This dissertation examines the friendship between the Narragansett Indians and Roger Williams in seventeenth-century New England. In general, the study employs an ethnohistorical approach, using written and archaeological data to describe and analyze both sides of the relationship. From cultural change theory, models of incorporative and directive intercultural relations provide a frame for the analysis. In the context of increasingly hostile Puritan-Amerindian relations, Williams and the Narragansetts posed an alternative, at least until King Philip’s War. They maintained ongoing dialogue and relatively peaceful coexistence despite personal differences, mounting internal stress on both sides, and heavy directive pressure from surrounding colonies.
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