2-329-834 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Uncas and Miantonomoh, 1643 (c1880). Uncas was a sachem (chief) of the Mohegan Native American tribe who became the leading tribe in Connecticut through their alliance with the English colonists of the area in the first half of the 17th century. Uncas allied himself with the colonists in their war against the Pequots in 1637, and against the Narragansetts in 1643, a conflict in which Miantonomoh, sachem of the Narragansetts, was captured. He was handed over to the English for trial, after which he was executed with a tomahawk by Uncas's brother. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume I, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.