I grew up in the town next door to where Mary Rowlandson was captured, and have seen various historical signs and plaques related to the War around Massachusetts. But I have a very rudimentary knowledge of the events, and especially the motivations, tactics, and organization of the Native Americans. I'd love to know of any good books on this subject, especially if they have a focus on the events in Central Massachusetts (Lancaster, Brookfield, and Mendon I think were the main skirmishes in the area).
I know this is probably too specific, so any general narratives would be great, but I feel like most of the ones I've read have been more from the colonists' perspective and focus on the starting point of the war in Rhode Island and southeastern Mass.
Have you read Jill Lepore's book? It's called The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity and is, despite the name, a good account of the war itself, especially when it comes to reconstructing Algonquin motivations and the differing ways Indians and English colonists understood the war was waged. I'm not sure that her efforts to tie King Philip's War into American identity over the next few centuries were as successful, but, well, it's still Jill Lepore, so a very good book.