The Powhatan and Jamestown
History. The majority of what we know about history comes from what we read others write about it, or what we are taught in school. Very little knowledge of history comes from stories that are handed down through cultures.
Those authors who write about history from a different perspective are not well known or published. Their stories are buried and attempted to be hidden from society because they do not meet the programming metrics required by the puppets of the matrix.
I have written a few blogs on the Powhatan people. As with most of my blog topics, I try to write future blogs by digging deeper into the content of the prior blog topic to help continue to bring an enlightenment to the culture or topic of that blog.
I set out to go into a deeper study of the Powhatan people and the Jamestown settlement. I will get to some of that history in a minute. But first an observation. I find it interesting that as I research the topic mentioned, that most of the history of the topic is written in a way to promote the programming that we have all been put under.
One example is the difference of wording in the content. One of the sites mentions how the settlers discovered the value of the tobacco crop and tried to "settle" deeper into the Indigenous lands for better soil. In response the Powhatan "slaughtered" many settlers in pursuit of this fertile soil. Do you see the programming to tell us the settlers were seeking to do better while the"savages" slaughtered them. How about the settlers set out to steal the land that belonged to the indigenous people and to protect their land and their families the indigenous people had to fight back which resulted in death on both sides. There is a difference.
When the English settlers arrived in Jamestown in 1607 the Powhatan people didn't know what to expect. After a bad experience with Spanish settlers, the first thing the indigenous people did was attack the first ship.
But Chief Powhatan then allowed the settlers onto the land hoping to absorb them in with the Powhatan people. They began to offer them food and hospitality and welcomed them onto their land. The colonists, however, were searching for instant wealth and neglected planting corn and other necessities for their survival. This led to the colonists becoming more dependent on the Powhatan for food.
John Smith's leadership would save the colony but brought the beginning of the end for the Powhatan people. Smith would explore the area and establish trade with the local people. But Smith also believed the English should treat the Powhatan as the Spanish did. Smith wanted to compel them to drudgery, work and slavery so that the English colonists could live like soldiers upon the fruit of their labor. So when food negotiations failed, the English took what they wanted by force.
In 1609 Powhatan realized the English were going to stay on the land without marrying the indigenous women, return their hospitality nor join and share the land with them. It is reported that the Powhatan began to attack and kill the English settlers, steal their livestock and burn their crops. Did Powhatan order this? As I stated, it was reported that the indigenous people did this. The reporter? None other than……John Smith. I think you get the picture on that.
Over the next decade the colonists began search and destroy missions on the Powhatan. They would burn their villages and their crops. This went on until the Powhatans were eventually forced into a truce which led to Chief Powhatan's daughter marrying John Rolfe.
After Jamestown the English would seek more land along the James River for their tobacco crops. They would keep expanding, taking the Powhatans land, forcing the people onto reservations or to death.
The Powhatan and Jamestown. What version were you told when you grew up? How were you programmed to feel about the English colonists and the "volatile" natives?
The Powhatan and Jamestown. A story from history of how a group of people offered hospitality, food and land to a group of people different from them. The result? A culture, a group of people are eradicated, driven from their land, enslaved and killed by a greedy group of English Colonists who thought they were superior.
The Powhatan and Jamestown, make sure you look at the story from all sides, from all eyes, not just the rewritten reporting of the leader of the greedy English colonists.
Blessings!
By Michael Walters
The Ancestor's Fire
Writing the voices of the unheard
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