These ranged from public brawls to targeted religious executions and genocidal campaigns aimed at the annihilation of natives. Opening on the varied tribes and territories of the Native Americans, he proceeds through the stories of dozens of ethnic and religious groups who arrived on American shores seeking a new life, only to find themselves thrust into bloody conflicts. But Bailyn, in his third volume on the “peopling” of the continent (the second, “Voyagers to the West,” won the Pulitzer), reveals a narrative of much greater complexity.
The clash of civilizations that occurred in seventeenth-century North America has often been portrayed as a series of skirmishes between white Europeans and Native Americans.
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