Powhatan
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Powhatan (present-day Richmond, Virginia)
1618
Powhatan
Powhatan-Renapé leader
Portrait: Powhatan. Reproduced by permission of The Library of Congress.
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Powhatan (ca. 1550-1618) was chief of a confederation of Algonquian Indians in Virginia at the time of the British colonization of Jamestown.Powhatan was the son of a chief reportedly driven from Flor...
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The living-history museum that opened in 1957 for the 350th anniversary of America's first permanent English settlement has new galleries and a newly expanded focus that has opened in tim...
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Rediscovering Jamestown by Stuart Englert Danny Schmidt hoists a plastic bucket filled with mud from an abandoned water well in Jamestown, Va., unearthing 400 years of history at the first permanen...
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Jamestown, Virginia (dpa) - They loom large in American
imagination - the explorer testing a new continent and the daughter
of an Indian chief whom he later said had saved h...
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Ospreys and turkey vultures soar above cypress trees as kayaks glide on the water, passing by herons scouting for fish and fiddler crabs scurrying along a narrow strip of shorel...
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Pamunkey Indian Reservation, Virginia (dpa) - Far from the
bustling highway, past the entrance to a popular amusement park, lies
a small Indian reservation - a spot little k...
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Students who participated in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex within a few years as those who did not, according to a long-awaited study mandated by Congress.Also, those w...
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Washington (dpa) - Britain staked its first successful foothold in
the New World 400 years ago in the marshy, Chesapeake Bay swamplands,
where the Powhatan Indian confederat...
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Jamestown, Virginia (dpa) - Approaching the site where British
settlers established their first permanent colony in North America,
visitors feel as if they have crossed back...
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New Galleries, Film Explore Jamestown
