JAMESTOWN, Va. — The powerful American Indian chief, known as Powhatan, had refused the English ... the shores of the York and James rivers in 1607 when the first English settlers arrived ...

In December 1607, six months after the founding of the English settlement of Jamestown, Capt. John Smith was captured by a relative of Powhatan, the leader of a chiefdom based in what is now eastern ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have excavated around 181 dog bones in Jamestown that belonged to at least 16 different dogs. The dogs likely lived between 1607 and ... either British, Powhatan or both groups ...

America’s first permanent English colony, Jamestown was established in 1607 in Tsenacomoco, the area in present-day Virginia that was home to the Powhatan chiefdom. Colonial shipping lists ...