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Monday, September 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 found the first victorious incline colony. The arriver of Captain behind Smith and different settlers would mark the solution of a infringe between the Powhatan southward and the position, un divideable brutality, war, and deficit that would inevitably yarn-dye the lives of both. White settlers treasured the Indians prop and had the persuasiveness to take it; the Indians could not live without their land (Townsend, 178). Powhatans quandary was that he would hit a ratiocination to make on behalf of his people; would he choose to set down Jamestown and risk the arriver of more newcomers to punish the settlers death; or, perhaps, he could make friends with the foreigners in hopes that through slyness (corn for guns and other priceless goods), he could have power and in turn set aside surrounding tribes who potentially posed a t hreat.\nMost colonists traveled to the refreshful universe of discourse in try for new beginnings, dissipated forests, foreign animals, lush and profitable farmland, specie and silver, while others voyaged crossways the dangerous seas for the recoil and adventure of it. at a time arriving in the New realness, it would be obligatory for the English settlers to be equipped with the prefatorial knowledge of their foreign lands. The Native Americans were neither inexperienced nor destitute. Although the English settlers possessed not bad(p) technological advances that the Indians did not, Powhatan knew that they would commit solely on his people to rail them on the polish of land. How had the settlers planned to annex the New World? Who but the Indians would tell the settlers what they needed to know-about passable rivers, food crops, pee supplies, and the like? (Townsend, 35).\nPowhatan was well aware of what he was up against; never underestimating the power of t he English settlers but never thinking of themselves or their culture as i... '

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