Miantonomo (Treacherous). A chief of the Narragansetts, and a nephew of Canonicus. They were associated together as the head of the nation at the time the English first arrived on New England shores. Miantonomo was the most popu- lar and active chief of Canonicus' family and exerted a power- ful influence among the warriors, leading all the war parties against the colonists. He was an ambitious Sachem and he had a desire to be at the head of all the New England Indian Tribes, and through a league resist the growing power of the English. It is said from patriotic motives, to accomplish this it was necessary that the Pequods must be defeated, he even hired a Pequod to kill Uncas, the Sachem. He was captured by the Pequods and killed. He was buried, and a great heap or pillar was erected over his grave.
