Reflection On The Film 'We Shall Remain'

Chez Evans KSP 220W Reflection We Shall Remain The film We Shall Remain explained what happened after the first Thanksgiving feast. In southeastern Massachusetts a leader of the Wampanoag tribe by the name of Massasoit Negotiates a friendship with new English settlers. Due to the sickness of the english Massasoit decided to help them survive through the winter, as the settlers started to bring more of their people to this new land the Wampanoag tribe became sickly. Becoming vulnerable and sick himself, Massasoit decided to become an alliance of the English. Some time later, the English began to take advantage of Massasoit's generosity and as the colonists began to immigrate more mistreatment and epidemics came along. The Natives with the help of Massasoit's son decided to fight
The practice of Christianity began to be forced upon the Wampanoag, the English made the tribe believe that if they wanted protection then they would have to live by moral code; meet the standards of the colonists. Eventually the english had brainwashed the Natives to believe that it was essential to look down on their own people to survive, that God did not like their way of living and that was why the tribe had not been immune to the foreign disease. The “beasts” of the english started to invade and the Natives had no where else to turn.
Despite the leadership of Metacom, the Natives began to believe the ways of the English. Having nothing more to believe in because of the dying community, the English started to give the Wampanoag tribe hope and soon warm housing. As Metacom went to confront the head of the colonist, Josiah Winslow, he showed no remorse. Standing up for what he thought was right but betrayed and laughed at by Josiah. The English showed no remorse, it was either become assimilated or die at your