At first glance this article the Murder on the Saltwater Frontier<\/em> by Andrew Lipman seem like a mystery-suspense murder story of John Oldham. In July 1636 John Gallop accidentally discovered a mutilated death body of John Odham at Block Island. The person responsible for Mr. Oldham’s murder was quickly revealed. But it was not the end, hundreds of Indians was killed, dismembered, or enslaved by English colonists looking to avenge Oldham’s murder (p, 270). John Oldham’s murder and Captain John Stone’ murder in 1634 were use as an excuse to launch the Pequot War.<\/p>\n

Andrew Lipman stressed that the debate of whether the murders of John Oldham or Captain Stone caused the Pequot War was not important part of this article, but the rivalry between the Europeans and the Native Americans is. I agree with David Zamarripa-Shippey <\/span><\/a>when he stated that an important argument of this article is to \u201crefute the Eurocentric view that Europeans held naval and navigational supremacy over Native Americans.\u201d While it cannot be denied that the Europeans held many superior strengths. The Europeans were arrogant when they did not consider the Natives to be nautical peoples (p, 273). In fact, the Indians had a long traditions of seagoing. Unlike the Europeans, they were good swimmers, they knew how to predict the weather patterns, even their canoes were much more efficient than the Europeans’.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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