Powhatan Indians Research Paper

Section 3: History
When the first humans reached Virginia, there were vast sheet of ice surrounding the USA, and an ample amount of animals for the humans to feast on. These peculiar group of civilization are known as Paleo-Indians. The ice sheets did not reach until Virginia, but they did make the climate much colder. Therefore Caribou, and moose would roam the empty grasslands. In fact, the Paleo Indians did not stay at Virginia for very long, they were a tribe that always followed herds of animals. After, about ten-thousand years after the Paleo-Indians left, their became a tribe very similar to the Paleo-Indians, these eccentric Indians were known as the Powhatan Indians.
Powhatan Indians lived on what is now known as the coastal plain

IN contrast, the Powhatan were different because they would sent the boys to live in the forest when they were sixteen. The boys would live by themselves for two years, then come back to the village, they were also told to forget about their previous lives, and would not be able to visit or talk to the members of their family. Girls lives were much more different than boys. Girls had to learn how to cook, sew, and care for small children. In addition, unlike lot’s of other tribes, it was the women that tended the crops and built the houses. In fact Powhatan girls would get married when they were thirteen or fourteen. The Powhatan Indians lived peaceful lives having some feuds here and there but would resolve them at the end. They were happy with what they had, and did not realize that their lives were soon going to be changed. When the Indians first met the pioneers they had demanded to see their leader, this brash man was named John Smith. Smith had come on boat and told the Indians that he and his pioneers were taking the land, well image that, would you just leave out of your house when someone tells you to, I wouldn’t, and neither would the Indians, so they