The article \u201cMurder on the Saltwater Frontier: The Death of John Oldham\u201d goes into detail about the death of John Oldham described by John Gallop, and due to this event caused the Pequot War of 1636-38 to happen between the Native Americans and the European foreigners trying to expand their sphere of influence with expansion of land and trade. The article starts by explaining John Gallop’s fears about trade and navigation in new lands, which happen to be American lands were the weather and losing one of his men and one of his fears came true (Lipman, 268). Gallop learned that his fear came true when he found out that the death of John Oldham was conducted by the \u201cNarragansett, Eastern Niantic, and Manisses Indians\u201d (Lipman, 269). Once the death was conducted, vengeance for John Oldham’s death was conducted by killing a mass sphere of Indians (Lipman, 270). This death started the two-year war between the Natives and the Europeans.<\/p>\n
In a sense of diplomacy, most nations would first try to avoid bloodshed and unnecessary conflicts by resolving their differences by engaging in conversations of diplomacy, but this does not happen if one party believes that the other group or party in question are savages. Viktoriya Shalunova<\/a> makes a clear point that should be considered when these events happened: Were we considered as savages (by the Natives) in the same vain that we considered the Native population as savages due to the lack of understanding European \u201cvalues?\u201d The natives in their eyes believed that the Europeans were savages because they did not practice the Native \u201cvalues.\u201d This is what I believed that that resulted in the war. Neither group understood that each side considered the other side as savages and it resulted in the Europeans massacring a Native population to avenge just one individual.<\/p>\n Andrew C. Lipman. \u201cMurder on the Saltwater Frontier: The Death of John Oldham.\u201d Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/i> 9, no. 2 (2011): 268-294. https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/ (accessed September 24, 2016).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n