Powhatan and his people: The 15,000 American Indians shoved aside by Jamestown’s settlers
8/3/19
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from The Washington Post,
8/3/19:
The Native Americans had a mighty culture when the English arrived 400 years ago. Soon after, there was conflict.
The powerful American Indian chief, known as Powhatan, had refused the English settlers’ demands to return stolen guns and swords at Jamestown, Va., so the English retaliated. They killed 15 of the Indian men, burned their houses and stole their corn. Then they kidnapped the wife of an Indian leader and her children and marched them to the English boats.
They put the children to death by throwing them overboard and “shooting out their brains in the water,” wrote George Percy, a prominent English settler in Jamestown.
And their orders for the leader’s wife: Burn her.
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