But English settlers already had a historical tradition to draw from .
William James Sidis hypothesized in his book The Tribes and the States ( 1935 ) that the Pennacook tribes greatly influenced the democratic ideals which European settlers instituted in New England .
English settlers already had a historical tradition to draw from .
William James Sidis hypothesized in his book The Tribes and the States ( 1935 ) that the Pennacook tribes greatly influenced the democratic ideals which European settlers instituted in New England .