This book offers a detailed introduction to the tribes of the New
England region - the first native American peoples affected by contact
with the French and English colonists. By 1700 several tribes had
already been virtually destroyed, and many others were soon reduced and
driven from their lands by disease, war or treachery. The tribes were
also drawn into the savage frontier wars between the French and the
British. The final defeat of French Canada and the subsequent unchecked
expansion of the British colonies resulted in the virtual extinction of
the region's Indian culture, which is only now being revived by small
descendant communities.