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American Genocide: The Mystic Massacre of 1637 - New England Historical Society The Mystic Massacre, a bloodbath that killed hundreds of women and children, was a nearly forgotten tragedy of the Pequot War.

The event has been characterized as an act of genocide and was pivotal in ending the #PequotWar. In the following years, the #Pequot name and language were outlawed, the tribe dispossessed of their lands, and remaining Pequots forced into neighboring tribes or sold into slavery in the Caribbean.

The story behind a brutal war between the English and Aboriginal in America youtu.be/sKAPrg-Fh9M?... #PequotWar #AmericanHistory

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1637, in the #PequotWar, English colonists massacred 500 Pequot villagers. The United States has inherited a legacy of intentional #genocide of #indigenous peoples, hence the sympathy for other colonial projects. Conservatives are still burying the facts.