He responded by attempting to have his book on the Powhatans banned in Virginia. |
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The marriage stabilized relations between the English and Powhatans until after her death. |
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Bacon's Rebellion marked an appropriation of the Powhatans ' external trade routes. |
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Two heavily built, buckskin-clad, Powhatans were seated at a small camp fire, chipping away at some stone arrowheads. |
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English settlers at Jamestown came with precious little knowledge of the land they were to colonize, let alone the particular practices of native peoples of coastal Virginia, collectively named the Powhatans. |
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In October or early November, with about 300 colonists crowded into the narrow confines of the James fort, the Powhatans launched a full-scale attack and siege, cutting off any hope of outside relief. |
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As the colony's leaders had anticipated, the marriage of Rolfe and Pocahontas brought about peaceful relations between the Powhatans and the English, which lasted almost eight years. |
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