Lady Lazarus

About Me

Female. Biology student. Works with big carnivorous animals. USA

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1. In Pursuit of Adequacy: Jamestown, The Powhatan Confederacy, and the Myth of Pocahontas

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   • In 1607, 32 Native Nations comprised the Powhatan Confederacy. It had over 15,000 people
   • Many times when maps of the regions were created in 1607 and around then, Native villages would be wiped off of them and made to look sparse to support the idea of North America being a ‘void’.
   • [photo] Wahunsenacawh holding council with members of Powhatan confederacy.
     • Pearls were used in Powhatan and other eastern nations/confederacy to denote status.
     • At the time, artists were sent to depict what the Americas and Native villages looked like. It was not uncommon to have been depicted not as is due to biases of the time.
   • Jamestown Fort 1607-1611 
     • Was built in a triangle shape with best artillery on the corners
     • Their dead was buried inside the fort as not to show weakness to the Powhatans
     • John Smith arrived in 1607
   • In the Powhatan Confederacy, alliances were made through marriage and through having children.
     • Women would go to villages to marry chiefs, have a child and go back to their tribes/villages after a year.
   • Both Chief Powhatan and his daughter were missed named.
     • The English assumed the name of the tribe was the Chief’s name.
     • His daughter’s name is: Matsoaks’ats
     • When she met John Smith in 1607, she was between 8-11 years old.
   • The Europeans had a bad habit of not having enough food with them when they traveled.
     • The food that was on the ground when the explores/invaders found upon their arrival that they took, was from a cemetery that had been left out for the spirits.
     • The Europeans/British would also raid villages for food while the (native) hunting parties were out.
   • John Smith gave the Chief a hat/crown, which he understood meant that the Chief would be a “subject of the crown”. This did not translate to the Chief.
   • At the time, the Native people on the east coast were about 6 feet tall (or taller) on average; while the Europeans were about 5 feet tall.
   • Pocahontas was wed in her teens to a Native person
   • Smith and settlers didn’t have food (again)
     •  Smith kidnaps and holds Pocahontas for ransom to gain food
       • when the Chief gave in, they decided to still hold her prisoner
       • She was forced to assimilate into European culture and Christianity
       • She was forced to marry her oppressor
     • The only known portrait of her was made in 1616
     • Matsoaka’ats (Pocahontas) was used as a walking, talking, advertisement for the Virginia Company
     • She was not allowed to leave England and she died there
     • At the time, and even now, England refuses to give her body back to her tribe because her grave/remains is a tourist attraction.

   “And so it was that another generation was spoon-fed one of America’s fondest myths at our expense,” Roy Crazy Horse, Chief of the Powhatan Renape Nation.

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