As the emancipation of the new world emerges, Indians in Virginia have to cohabitate with the intruder as they searching for new lands, opportunities and better life; in contrast as the peaceful, spiritual life that is already there. Our point of view and needs as different as it is will put our path together to work for a quality existence, but soon after established the issues started. My people and I (Indians) in Virginia will have to face environmental, social and political problems. These Quakers soon becomes enemies and masters who will force us to obligate to their rules and laws which only make them the beneficiaries.
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Indeed we did not have any medical knowledge to heal the sick people. My chief Powhatan (Wahunsonacock) was the one who was leading most of the group, his persuasion and ferocity made him a respectable leader. Our life was pretty much an ensemble of routine and as many society that already exist we married, divorce, educate our children in our ways and pray our God. Our life was not perfect but we appreciate what was our and the freedom of the land. But the invader comes along, at first intrigued by the pale faces we let them board to see their intentions. But later on we realize that they have no intention to go back, they were here to stay. As it states in chapter 2, Give me liberty by Eric Foner: “land in North America, of course, was already occupied. And the arrival of English settlers presented the native inhabitants of eastern North America with the greatest crisis in their history. Unlike the Spanish, English colonists wanted land, not dominion over the existing population. They were chiefly interested in displacing the Indians and settling on their land, not intermarrying with them, organizing their labor or making them subjects of the crown.”
Indeed we did not have any medical knowledge to heal the sick people. My chief Powhatan (Wahunsonacock) was the one who was leading most of the group, his persuasion and ferocity made him a respectable leader. Our life was pretty much an ensemble of routine and as many society that already exist we married, divorce, educate our children in our ways and pray our God. Our life was not perfect but we appreciate what was our and the freedom of the land. But the invader comes along, at first intrigued by the pale faces we let them board to see their intentions. But later on we realize that they have no intention to go back, they were here to stay. As it states in chapter 2, Give me liberty by Eric Foner: “land in North America, of course, was already occupied. And the arrival of English settlers presented the native inhabitants of eastern North America with the greatest crisis in their history. Unlike the Spanish, English colonists wanted land, not dominion over the existing population. They were chiefly interested in displacing the Indians and settling on their land, not intermarrying with them, organizing their labor or making them subjects of the crown.”