Remapping King Philip's War: Gaining New Perspectives About Its Impact on the Nipmuc, Wampanoag, and Narragansett Nations Using GIS

McKeen, Joshua D.; Fiddes, Cameron M.

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Remapping King Philip's War: Gaining New Perspectives About Its Impact on the Nipmuc, Wampanoag, and Narragansett Nations Using GIS

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This is an interactive mapping project showing key events in King Philip’s War (1675-1678). We used GeoJSON and Leaflet to build our maps. GeoJSON is a visual data format that sets points, areas, and other annotations on maps. Leaflet is a JavaScript library for GeoJSON that displays images and annotations. It arose in New England between English colonists and the nations which had lived there for eons (e.g., the Wampanoag, Narragansett, and Nipmuc). For centuries, colonists told only their side of the war, as they had control over the press. Yet that story can be unfair to people who were not colonists. This project aims to validate non-colonist views as worthwhile. We want our maps to urge closer looks at King Philip’s War and inspire other maps for events in euro-indigenous history.

This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

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