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Powhatan...Powhatan is american chief, who headed a confederation of tribes in tidewater virginia at the time that the english founded jamestown in 1607. Tribe...At the time English colonists arrived in the spring of 1607, coastal Virginia was inhabited by the Powhatan Indians, an Algonquian-speaking people. The Powhatans were comprised of 30-some tribal groups, with a total population of about 14,000, under the control of Wahunsonacock, sometimes called Powhatan. There challenge...Their challenge was that they were saving jamestown and there was way too many people and they didn’t want them to help, and they fought them to make them not help them out. So they left and went back to their village and got more people and they came back to try again. This time it worked and they took over and helped everyone out that needed to be helped. Born...Born in June 17, 1545 in virginia, died april 1618. He has one child and its name is Pocahontas and he has one sibling and its name is Opechancanough. He also has one grandchild and his name is Thomas Rolfe, I will tell you a little more about his child and …show more content…

In late December 1607, Captain John Smith led a small group of colonists in an expedition outside the fort in search of food.On her trip to England with husband, John Rolfe, she was renamed Rebecca.Pocahontas first enters the historical record in 1607 shortly after the settlers arrived at Jamestown. In late December 1607, Captain John Smith led a small group of colonists in an expedition outside the fort in search of food.When the English arrived and settled Jamestown in May 1607, Pocahontas was about eleven years old. Pocahontas and her father would not meet any Englishmen until the winter of 1607, when Captain John Smith was captured by Powhatan's brother

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