The emotions kept rising between the Pequots and the Puritans, and on May 26, 1637, the English decided that it was time to end their war with the Pequots, and attacked their village at Mystic. .
Major John Mason and Captain Underhill led their troop of seventy English, seventy Mohegans, and five hundred Narragansetts, split in half, two both entrances of the village. When many of the women and children chose to stay in their wigwams in order to avoid the fighting, Mason became frustrated and set fire to the village. Underhill also set fire to the village on the opposite side, and then stationed men around the village to slaughter anyone who managed to escape the flames. When the morning came, the air was surrounded with ashes and the smell of burning flesh. Major Mason thought that his actions were pleasing to God, and said that, "we had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceeding." The battle lasted less than an hour, but the massacre set the tone for future relationships between settlers and natives. The English now believed that they could dominate whomever they wanted, and they planned to use this advantage. .
By dominating the Indians, the English viewed it as civilization over savagery. Americans viewed themselves higher than any of the natives, "dismissing [them] as backwards, uncivilized savages who needed to be conquered" (Gillon, 25). In May 1830, nearly two hundred years after the war with the Pequots, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which forced the tribes into territory west of the Mississippi. More than seventy thousand Indians were forced to abandon their homes and make room for more white settlers. They were promised they wouldn't have to move again, but in 1906 the government broke their promise and again forced them to leave their homes. .
Despite their hardships, the Native Americans triumphed in the end. In 1666 the English gave the Pequots a three thousand acre reservation to live on, and by 1921 only fifty Pequots still lived on the reservation.
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