And the fighting continued. Soon after constructing the fort at Jamestown, two hundred Powhatan Indians unexpectedly attacked the new settlers, who had not yet unpacked their guns. By 1609 ...

He promised to help subjugate Powhatan's enemies to the west, and Powhatan formally declared the pale-faced foreigner a weroance, or Algonquian chief. The survival of Jamestown—established 400 ...

The Werowocomoco Research Project is a collaborative effort by archeologists, historians, and Virginia Indian ... at Jamestown, view photos of current excavations, read biographies of settlers ...

During the summer and fall of 1607, illness had wiped out approximately half of the original Jamestown settlers. During this time, the Powhatan people, a confederacy of more than 30 Indigenous ...

The study, published in the journal American Antiquity, argues that cut marks on historic canine bones from Jamestown ...

Virginia's Historic Triangle of Jamestown ... Play an Important Role When the English landed, Powhatan Indians welcomed them as traders, not settlers, to the James River region.