{"slug": "algonquian-peoples", "label": "Algonquian peoples", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian_peoples", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1621197", "qid": "Q1621197", "description": "ethnic group of Native Americans", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [1613, 1701], "span_label": ["1613 CE", "1701 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "new-england", "label": "New England", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pocahontas", "label": "Pocahontas", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "january", "label": "January", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christians", "label": "Christians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "native-americans-in-the-united-states", "label": "Native Americans in the United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "massachusetts-bay-colony", "label": "Massachusetts Bay Colony", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "springfield-massachusetts", "label": "Springfield, Massachusetts", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-france", "label": "New France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iroquois-confederacy", "label": "Iroquois Confederacy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "james-vi-and-i", "label": "James VI and I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "powhatan", "label": "Powhatan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rhode-island", "label": "Rhode Island", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1613, "year_label": "1613 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 13", "text": "April 13 – Samuel Argall captures Algonquian princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia, to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father, Chief Powhatan. She is brought to Henricus as a hostage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366649732#April–June", "title": "1613", "revid": 1366649732, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1617, "year_label": "1617 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 5", "text": "January 5 – Pocahontas and Tomocomo of the Powhatan Algonquian tribe, in the Virginia colony of America, meet King James I of England as his guests, at the Banqueting House at Whitehall.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367152520#January–March", "title": "1617", "revid": 1367152520, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1622, "year_label": "1622 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 22", "text": "March 22 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown, Virginia (one third of the colony's population), and burn the Henricus settlement. This begins the American Indian Wars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366857889#January–May", "title": "1622", "revid": 1366857889, "section": "Events › January–May"}}, {"year": 1636, "year_label": "1636 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – William Pynchon and his men establish the settlement of Agawam Plantation (now Springfield, Massachusetts) in territory controlled by the Agawam people, a subset of the Algonquian peoples, and negotiate for its purchase for Britain's Connecticut Colony. The Agawams deed the land to Connecticut on July 15, and the area is later deeded by Connecticut to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358525522#April–June", "title": "1636", "revid": 1358525522, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1675, "year_label": "1675 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 29", "text": "January 29 – John Sassamon, an English-educated Native American Christian, dies at Assawampsett Pond, an event which will trigger a year-long war between the English American colonists of New England, and the Algonquian Native American tribes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992546#January–March", "title": "1675", "revid": 1365992546, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1676, "year_label": "1676 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January", "text": "January – Six months into King Philip's War, Metacomet (King Philip), leader of the Algonquian tribe known as the Wampanoag, travels westward to the Mohawk nation, seeking an alliance with the Mohawks against the English colonists of New England; his efforts in creating such an alliance are a failure.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992596#January–March", "title": "1676", "revid": 1365992596, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1676, "year_label": "1676 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 2", "text": "July 2 – Major John Talcott and his troops begin sweeping Connecticut and Rhode Island, capturing large numbers of Native Americans from Algonquian tribes and exporting them out of the English colonies as slaves.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992596#July–September", "title": "1676", "revid": 1365992596, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1701, "year_label": "1701 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 4", "text": "August 4 – The Great Peace of Montreal is signed, ending 100 years of war between the Iroquois Confederacy and New France, and its Huron and Algonquian allies. Formerly allied with the English, the treaty assures the Iroquois will be neutral, if France and England ever resume hostilities.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366683505#July–September", "title": "1701", "revid": 1366683505, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}