wn and annihilated by local militias. These Algonquian communities were singularly marked by a lack of solidarity among the various tribes. Ver Steeg said "they were divided into warring tribes of varying cultural levels who spoke a bewildering variety of languages" (35). Disputes inevitably erupted principally over white expansion into Indian hunting grounds, crooked land grabs, broken white promises and Puritan attempts to convert the Indians to Christianity. When the New England tribes realized at the time of King Philip's War (1675-1676) that they needed to united forces, it was too late. Similar fates eventually awaited the Algonquian tribes in the Middle Atlantic states, the southern Algonquians later organized in the Powhatan Confederacy in the Viginia Tidewater region and the Tuscaroras (who joined the Iroquois in 1722 and moved north), and the Yamasees, the Catawbas and other tribes along the Carolina coast. According to Washburn, "by the end of the 17th century the coastal tribes along most of the Atlantic seaboard had been destroyed, displa
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