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that of lieutenant in King Philips War, I take the view that Thomas Miner directly contributed to and initiated the long history of Native American genocide in United States history, and that he, like his peers, believed in “conquest and murder in the name of progress� (Schultz 5, Zinn 9). In short, I believe that Thomas Miner was a predominant figure in the implicit exploitation and dissolution of Native American sovereignty, culture and power in colonial New England as demonstrated by his religiously/ideologically-motivated participation in the multi-faceted dispossession of Indian land from which the agragian American dream was born. Through this post-colonial perspective of Thomas Miner, I investigate both the continued Euramerican presence in southeastern Connecticut and my identity as a descendent of one of the region’s first invaders in this thesis.