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  1. Grenier, First Way of War, I.
    5. Bailyn, Barbarous Years.

  2. Grenier, First Way of War, 4-5, 7.

  3. Ibid., 2i.

  4. From Samuel G. Drake, Biography and History of the Indians of North
    America (Boston, 1841 ), quoted in Nabokov, Native American Testimony,
    72.

  5. For the role of Pocahontas in the Powhatan resistance, see Townsend,
    Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma.
    10. The Encarta World English Dictionary defines the verb "to extirpate" as
    "to completely get rid of, kill off, or destroy something or somebody con­
    sidered undesirable" or "to remove something surgically."
    II. Grenier, First Way of War, 22-26.
    12. Ibid., 34.
    13. For a brilliant examination of this issue, see Allen, Invention of the White
    Race.
    14. Zinn, People's History of the United States, 39 -42; Washburn, Governor
    and the Rebel.
    15. Foner, Give Me Liberty!, 100.

  6. Quoted in Vowell, Wordy Shipmates, 3i.
    17. Grenier, First Way of War, 26-27.

  7. Ibid., 27.
    19. Ibid., 27 -28.

  8. Quoted in Zinn, People's History of the United States, 15.
    2i. "King Philip" was what the English called Wampanoag leader Metacom.

  9. Colonialist recruitment of Native guides, informants, and fighters had its
    counterpart in the twentieth century. For example, the federally funded
    Guardians of the Oglala Nation (GOONs) functioned as an Indigenous
    paramilitary organization on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in the early
    197 0s, attacking and murdering anyone, including old and infirm people,
    who supported the American Indian Movement.

  10. Grenier, First Way of War, 29-34, 36 -37, 39.

  11. Taylor, American Colonies, 290.

  12. Grenier, First Way of War, 39-4i.

  13. Ibid., 42- 43.

  14. Ibid., 52.

  15. Ibid., 55-57.

  16. Ibid., 58, 6o-6i.

  17. See Szabo, The Seven Years War in Europe; and Anderson, War That Made
    America.
    3i. Grenier, First Way of War, 66, 77.

  18. Ibid., 11 5-17.
    3 3. Amherst quoted in Calloway, Scratch of a Pen, 73.

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