In the story “The True Story of Pocahontas, The other side” the authors, Linwood Custalow, Angela L. Daniel writes about the Powhaton Nation and its people. This following summary will be given on Chapter Two. In this chapter Linwood describes the oral history passed down from generation to generation of the first encounters with the colonists. He tells all on how when the English colonists first arrive when Pocahontas was at the age of ten years old. Then it is explained that there were/are very clear and distinct divisions between childhood and adulthood. There is the clear physical difference, but there are also clear differences in behavior. The children in a tribe with are easy to see because during the summer and spring children wear
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He would go into camps pretending to be friendly, but then he would pull a gun and demand food and goods for his ransom. He took five armed guards with him as well so the guns would scare the natives even more. He was eventually captured though and they took him to tribe-to-tribe showing the natives that he wasn’t this deity that everyone had thought he was before. Eventually Smith began to talk and reason with the Powhatons and he told them that he had come to the New World to escape the Spanish who attacked him in English. This made the Native Americans happy because they didn’t like the Spanish because they captured Natives and enslaved them and killed them because of diseases. The Spanish also captured a man named Luis who went to Spain for 11 years and learned Spanish and their ways he then was allowed to come back with some Jesuits from Spain to spread Christianity. The Jesuits soon became sick and they killed them because of the fear of diseases. The Spanish were very upset and demanded Luis come back but he didn’t so the Spanish captured and hanged ten Powhatons. After this the relations between the English and the Natives increased and Wahunsenacawh asked if Smith wanted to become the Leader of the English in the Powhaton Nation. He would give them better territory then that of Jamestown Island. This is when Smith says that Pocahontas saves his life. This isn’t true though says the author because they Quiarkos
He would go into camps pretending to be friendly, but then he would pull a gun and demand food and goods for his ransom. He took five armed guards with him as well so the guns would scare the natives even more. He was eventually captured though and they took him to tribe-to-tribe showing the natives that he wasn’t this deity that everyone had thought he was before. Eventually Smith began to talk and reason with the Powhatons and he told them that he had come to the New World to escape the Spanish who attacked him in English. This made the Native Americans happy because they didn’t like the Spanish because they captured Natives and enslaved them and killed them because of diseases. The Spanish also captured a man named Luis who went to Spain for 11 years and learned Spanish and their ways he then was allowed to come back with some Jesuits from Spain to spread Christianity. The Jesuits soon became sick and they killed them because of the fear of diseases. The Spanish were very upset and demanded Luis come back but he didn’t so the Spanish captured and hanged ten Powhatons. After this the relations between the English and the Natives increased and Wahunsenacawh asked if Smith wanted to become the Leader of the English in the Powhaton Nation. He would give them better territory then that of Jamestown Island. This is when Smith says that Pocahontas saves his life. This isn’t true though says the author because they Quiarkos