Glenn Beck

Others were suspected by both sides, confined or killed.

The war was not a simple race line.

It was, at its awful core, a collision over Christianity, sovereignty, and survival.

Atrocities mounted on both sides, scalps taken, heads on spike, villages burned to the ground.

One of the most modern allegations is that King Philip's War was the result of Indians pushing back against the greedy, land-grabbing colonists that Indians were simply trying to regain.

Territory that was actually rightfully theirs.

But Governor Josiah Winslow disagreed.

Many today reject this statement, accusing the colonists of taking an unfair advantage of the Indians, that they gave natives much less than what the land was worth.

But this claim is misleading.

It's a negotiated deal.

Whenever the colonists and Indians negotiated a deal, each side voluntarily agreed to the terms.

If they had not, then they wouldn't have signed it.

Values and worldviews certainly clashed, but agreements were mutual.

For Medicom's forces, supplies dwindled, disease ravaged the ranks.

In August 1676, Medicom was tracked down by the English and Indian allies.

A Christian Indian who went by the name of John Alderman shot him dead.

The captain of the militia ordered that because Medicom had left so many European bodies to rot above ground.

Quote, "'Not one of his bones should be buried.'"

They quartered Metacon's body and sent it to pieces to towns all across New England.

His head was posted on a stake and displayed in Plymouth for decades.