In 1637, anywhere from four to seven hundred Pequot were gathered for their annual green corn dance. The head was spiked and carried through the streets of Plymouth before it was put on display at Plymouth Colony Fort for the next twenty five years. Metacomet's head was sold to the Plymouth Colony for thirty shillings-the going rate for an Indian head at the time. John Alderman was given Metacomet's hand, which he kept in a jar of rum and for years took it around with him-charged people to see it. They tied his four body sections to nearby trees for the birds to pluck. He was caught by Benjamin Church, Captain of the very first American Ranger force and an Indian by the name of John Alderman. Three years later the war was over and Metacomet was on the run. All of which lead to the first official Indian war. His brother Wamsutta was let's say very likely poisoned after being summoned and seized by the Plymouth court.

Metacomet, also known as King Phillip, was forced to sign a peace treaty to give up all Indian guns. Two hundred Indians dropped dead that night from supposed unknown poison.īy the time Massasoit's son Metacomet became chief, there were no Indian-Pilgrim meals being eaten together. Two years later there was another, similar meal, meant to symbolize eternal friendship. That meal is why we still eat a meal together in November. In 1621, colonists invited Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags, to a feast after a recent land deal. The Indian head was just above the bullseye, like all you'd need to do was nod up in agreement to set the sights on the target. There was what looked like a bullseye in the middle of the screen, with numbers like coordinates. If you left the TV on, you'd hear a tone at 440 hertz-the tone used to tune instruments-and you'd see that Indian, surrounded by circles that looked like sights through rifle scopes. It's called the Indian Head Test Pattern. There was an Indian head, the head of an Indian, the drawing of the head of a headdressed, long haired, Indian depicted, drawn by an unknown artist in 1939, broadcast until the late 1970s to American TVs everywhere after all the shows ran out.

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