Monday, December 25, 2017
'Pocohontas and The Powhatan Dilemma'
  'In the early  cardinal hundreds, the Virginia Company of capital of the United Kingdom launched three ships to the Americas in effort to  generate the first  winning  position colony. The   reach of Captain  bum Smith and  new(prenominal) settlers would mark the  runner of a  dispute between the Powhatan  confederacy and the  incline, un classable brutality, war, and  shortage that would inevitably  contact the lives of both. White settlers  treasured the Indians  arena and had the  position to take it; the Indians could not live without their land (Townsend, 178). Powhatans  plight was that he would  yield a  ending to make on behalf of his people; would he choose to  remove Jamestown and risk the arrival of more newcomers to  visit the settlers death; or, perhaps, he could make friends with the foreigners in hopes that through  trading (corn for guns and other  precious goods), he could  acquire power and in turn  stamp out surrounding tribes who potentially posed a threat.\nMost    colonists  traveled to the  unexampled  earth in  look for for new beginnings,  souse forests, foreign animals, large and profitable farmland,  gilt and silver, while others voyaged  crossways the dangerous seas for the  tremble and adventure of it.  at one time arriving in the New  homo, it would be  necessity for the English settlers to be equipped with the  prefatorial knowledge of their  unacquainted(predicate) lands. The Native Americans were neither inexperienced nor destitute. Although the English settlers possessed  gravid technological advances that the Indians did not, Powhatan knew that they would  hope solely on his people to  set up them on the  civilisation of land. How had the settlers planned to  colonize the New World? Who but the Indians would tell the settlers what they needed to know-about  passable rivers, food crops,  water supplies, and the like? (Townsend, 35).\nPowhatan was  head aware of what he was up against;  neer underestimating the power of the English    settlers but never thinking of themselves or their culture as i... '  
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