To set the record straight, the Indians may have saved the Puritans in Massachusetts from starvation that first winter, but the colonists were pretty much on their own. One of their major problems with the Indians was getting ambushed while they were working in their own fields they themselves had cleared and planted.
Journals from those times are replete with accounts of whole families and settlements being killed or kidnapped. Many were marched off to Canada in the dead of winter and held as hostages.
I would say that the Indians of those times were "terrorists" but we only hear one side of the story today. The reason tribes were decimated and driven further west was mostly a matter of self-preservation on the part of the settlers.
Sounds like I'm a victim of revisionist history. Thanks, for the clarification.