By the point of that war the white people had been oppressing the Indians for more than a hundred years. One murder does not justify returning with a massacre, and leaving out various facts from history does not mean much when you are trying to retell a whole lot of history. If people want a different telling of history, there is always Wikipedia.<p>Also, if you read Wikipedia, you will see that Daniel Flynn's understanding of the Pequot War is completely wrong. I will quote him, and then let you read the Wikipedia article yourself.<p>&#62;Thus the Pequot violence against whites that led to the war is almost entirely absent from the text. The most Zinn can bring himself to admit is that “Massacres took place on both sides.” In fact, the author details only the atrocities committed by one side: the Puritans.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequot_War" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequot_War</a>