I agree with Steven T. Katz in that the English were not guilty of genocide. The Pequot War was started because of the constant murdering, ambushing, and raiding the English received from the Pequot’s while trying to settle in the New World. A quote from the opposing side of David E. Stannard was according to the Europeans, “The only good savage is a dead one.” Although that quote may hold true to the settlers, they had good reason for saying so. At the start of this all the English were greeted into the Ne