Roger Williams: The Man Who Talked With the Indians

Running into a Wampanoag camp in the middle of the wilderness should have worried an Englishman traveling in the dark winter woods of southeastern New England in 1636. In Boston, there had been rumors of Indian wars, while a few miles away the Pequots would soon go on the warpath and decimate Connecticut. But to Roger Williams, fleeing his Puritan brethren of the Massachusetts Bay colony, the smoky wigwams in the snowy wilderness were a welcome sight.