Swindler sachem: the American Indian who sold his birthright, dropped out of Harvard, and conned the king of England

"The place of their desires": Hassanamesit

"Prask that was wife to John Wompas": the Pequot war and the enslavement of Ann Prask

"To bee trained up among the English": John Wompas and the civilizing project

"My proper right & inheritance": John Wompas and the English land market

"I cherish a desire to be at sea": John Wompas and the maritime Atlantic

"New England hath lost the day": John Wompas protests to the English crown

"Hee had lost a great many men in the warr": the Nipmucs and Ann Wompas in King Philip's war

"The English did wrong them about their lands": the political awakening of John Wompas

"Royall protection": John Wompas, subject status, and the English crown

"One piece of land to cling on to": the Hassanamisco reservation. Appendix 1. Land transactions of John Wompas and Ann Prack Wompas, 1662-1679. Appendix 2. People and places connected to John Wompas.