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Self-inflicted wounds, failures to heed cautionary tales has caused New Yorks Governor to lose his inspirational platform, John Rolfe writes.

Henricus Colony of Virginia Send to Google Classroom: Henricus (1611-1622 CE, also known as Henrico, Henryco, Citie of Henryco) was a colony established in Virginia, above Jamestown, in 1611 CE by Sir Thomas Dale (l. c. 1560-1619 CE). Dale had been ordered by the Virginia Company of London – which had funded the expedition that established Jamestown Colony of Virginia – to locate a site for a new colony that would replace Jamestown as capital. Dale’s mission was to find better land for a ...

The Indian Massacre of 1622 CE was an attack on the settlements of the Virginia Colony by the tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy under their leader Opchanacanough...

Kneo Mokgopa - Manager: Communications & Advocacy News Content notice: Graphic description of acts of gender-based violence “You want to understand how power works in any society, watch who is carrying the shame and who is doing the shaming.”  Shailja Patel Growing up, I was taught all kinds of myths about Black women. I was taught, on the playground, in Disney films and from the Generations soapie that women are delicate things, that women are unambitious and are happiest waiting for men...

SUMMARY The Nansemond tribe is a state- and federally recognized Indian tribe whose members live mostly in the cities of Chesapeake and Suffolk. In 2009 about 200 Nansemond tribal members were registered in Virginia. By 1607, when the first English settlers founded Jamestown, the Nansemond lived in several villages centered near Chuckatuck, in present-day Suffolk, along the Nansemond River. Their head chief lived near Dumpling Island, where the tribe’s temple and sacred objects were located....

The Anglo-Powhatan Wars (also given as Powhatan Wars) were a series of conflicts between the English colonists of Virginia, North America, and the indigenous...

What It Was Really Like For Native Americans Who Traveled To Europe By Sarah Crocker/Feb. 24, 2021 1:26 pm EDT Much has been made of the various European-led conquests, expeditions, and contacts that deeply changed the fabric of Native American life beginning centuries ago. Whether thats Christopher Columbus arriving in whats now Puerto Rico in 1493, Vikings settling down in Canada, or any other similar tale, however, thats not the whole story. As it turns out, the Atlantic Ocean has never be...

April 1614 At the conclusion of the First Anglo-Powhatan War, the Chickahominy Indians negotiate a peace treaty with the English independent of the Powhatans. 1616 By early in the year, Opechancanough has persuaded the Chickahominy Indians to renege on the terms of their peace treaty with the English and he soon incorporates them into the Tsenacomoco political alliance. October 1646 The General Assembly confirms the Treaty of Peace with Necotowance, a peace treaty ending the Third Anglo-P...

A new book takes a communal look at a history that has long been buried. "Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019" collects the work of 90 writers — historians, poets, journalists, novelists and activists — to tell the stories of Black Americans, from the arrival of the White Lion, which brought enslaved people to the colonies in 1619, to the Black Lives Matter movement. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones writes a chapter on th...

John Rolfe Send to Google Classroom: John Rolfe (l. 1585-1622 CE) was an English merchant and colonist of Jamestown best known as the husband of Pocahontas (l. c. 1596-1617 CE). He is also known, however, for his successful cultivation of tobacco in Virginia which established the crop as the most lucrative export of the early English colonies of North America. Tobacco had proven itself a profitable trade commodity for the Spanish who had colonized South and Central America and the West Indies t...