Useful Links
Biography of Captain John Smith from the National Parks Service
www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/life-of-john-smith.htm |
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Pocahontas: her life and legend
www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/pocahontas-her-life-and-legend.htm |
The Other Jamestown
The central theme of this website is the Algonquian Exchange, a device for probing the cultural and other consequences of the interaction between the colonizers and the Algonquian Indians of Early Virginia
virtual-jamestown.com/
The central theme of this website is the Algonquian Exchange, a device for probing the cultural and other consequences of the interaction between the colonizers and the Algonquian Indians of Early Virginia
virtual-jamestown.com/
Digital reDiscovery: A Virtual Tour of James Fort Take a virtual video tour of Jamestown, the first successful English settlement in North America. Learn more about the archaeology and history of this significant site through one of interactive maps. historicjamestowne.org/digital-rediscovery/ |
Primary & Secondary Sources
A Young Jamestown Settler Becomes Powhatan's Interpreter
As a young boy, Henry Spelman was part of the early Jamestown settlement, under the leadership of John Smith. In 1608, Smith arranged an exchange with the Indian leader Powhatan that included beads, provisions, and "sons," who were to act as interpreters and liaisons between the two groups. Spelman, along with a man named Thomas Savage, was one of these "sons." Published in London in 1872, this narrative is believed to have been written by Spelman in 1613, after he returned to England.
shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/698
As a young boy, Henry Spelman was part of the early Jamestown settlement, under the leadership of John Smith. In 1608, Smith arranged an exchange with the Indian leader Powhatan that included beads, provisions, and "sons," who were to act as interpreters and liaisons between the two groups. Spelman, along with a man named Thomas Savage, was one of these "sons." Published in London in 1872, this narrative is believed to have been written by Spelman in 1613, after he returned to England.
shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/698
Image: An aged manne in his winter garment
Contrary to many later European depictions of Native Americans, the engravings of Thomas De Bry, based on earlier watercolors by John White, show that the Algonquian peoples the English encountered in Virginia had developed a complex and diversified society. This engraving of a dignified elder of the village of Pomeiooc suggests Algonquian refinements in clothing, housing construction, and agriculture. Such innovations later proved useful to the settlers at Jamestown, who relied on trade with the Powhatans and other Algonkian groups for survival. shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1181 |
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Powhatan Asks "Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food?"
Powhatan (c. 1547-1618) was the head of a confederacy that spanned hundreds of miles and thirty-two tribes. (He is well known today because of his favorite daughter, Pocahontas, who rescued the English captain John Smith from execution in 1608.) In 1607 Powhatan's confederacy allowed the English to establish their first colony at Jamestown. In 1609, when the same Captain Smith, dissatisfied with trade negotiations, resorted to bluster and threats, Powhatan made the following reply.
shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/697
Powhatan Asks "Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food?"
Powhatan (c. 1547-1618) was the head of a confederacy that spanned hundreds of miles and thirty-two tribes. (He is well known today because of his favorite daughter, Pocahontas, who rescued the English captain John Smith from execution in 1608.) In 1607 Powhatan's confederacy allowed the English to establish their first colony at Jamestown. In 1609, when the same Captain Smith, dissatisfied with trade negotiations, resorted to bluster and threats, Powhatan made the following reply.
shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/697
First Hand Accounts: Jamestown Resources is a digital archive of images, artifacts, maps, rare documents, censuses, and other data for teachers, researchers, genealogists, students, and the general public who want to explore the meaning of Jamestown in the American experience.
www.virtualjamestown.org/firsthand.html Descriptions of the colony and its history The documents in this section of the website detail the colony's early history, the land surrounding the Jamestown settlement, the commodities that could be found or produced in Virginia, and the general state of affairs in the colony. www.virtualjamestown.org/fhaccounts_desc.html#history |
After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection 6th Edition by James West Davidson (Author), Mark Lytle (Author)
Chapter 2 : Serving Time in Virginia
Pocahontas saved Captain John Smith's life, as everyone knows. Or did she? What we know about the ''facts" of the case depends on the perspectives wrapped around those facts.
www.amazon.com/After-Fact-Art-Historical-Detection/dp/0073385484/ref=asc_df_0073385484/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312176356508&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11995282632916856172&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9004325&hvtargid=pla-489618251716&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=60258871657&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312176356508&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11995282632916856172&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9004325&hvtargid=pla-489618251716
Chapter 2 : Serving Time in Virginia
Pocahontas saved Captain John Smith's life, as everyone knows. Or did she? What we know about the ''facts" of the case depends on the perspectives wrapped around those facts.
www.amazon.com/After-Fact-Art-Historical-Detection/dp/0073385484/ref=asc_df_0073385484/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312176356508&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11995282632916856172&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9004325&hvtargid=pla-489618251716&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=60258871657&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312176356508&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11995282632916856172&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9004325&hvtargid=pla-489618251716
Teaching Material
Jamestown teaching material : provides lesson plans using primary and secondary sources. Includes objectives, materials, procedures, and assessments, All lessons adhere to the national history standards in historical thinking.
www.virtualjamestown.org/tscreators.html |
Primary source set about Jamestown from the Library of Congress www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/jamestown/#teachers-guide Virginia's Early Relations With Natives www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/colonial-settlement-1600-1763/virginia-relations-with-native-americans/ |
The Anglo-Powhatan War (1609-1614)
Chief Powhatan Address to Captain John Smith delivered in 1609
www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/nativeamericans/chiefpowhatan.htm |
Powhatan People and the English at Jamestown (source set + teaching guide) This primary source set explores contact between the Powhatan and the English in the first years after English settlement. dp.la/primary-source-sets/powhatan-people-and-the-english-at-jamestown#tabs |