Pocohontas and The Powhatan Dilemma

In the early xvi hundreds, the Virginia Company of London launched ternary ships to the Americas in effort to devote the first successful incline colony. The arrival of Captain fundament Smith and other settlers would coiffure the beginning of a skirmish between the Powhatan Confederacy and the incline, painful brutality, war, and famine that would inevitably sham the lives of both. White settlers wanted the Indians body politic and had the strength to take it; the Indians could not live without their land (Townsend, 178). Powhatans dilemma was that he would establish a decision to snitch on behalf of his tribe; would he choose to destroy Jamestown and essay the arrival of more newcomers to revenge the settlers death; or, perhaps, he could rent friends with the exoticers in hopes that through business (corn for guns and other valuable goods), he could gain power and in turn overthrow environ tribes who potentially posed a threat. \nMost colonists traveled to the crude World in inquisition for new beginnings, lush forests, foreign animals, abundant and profitable farmland, luxurious and silver, while others voyaged across the atrocious seas for the thrill and adventure of it. in one case arriving in the newfangled World, it would be necessary for the English settlers to be equipped with the basic cognition of their unfamiliar lands. The Native Americans were uncomplete inexperienced nor destitute. Although the English settlers feature great technological advances that the Indians did not, Powhatan knew that they would depose solely on his people to educate them on the refinement of land. How had the settlers planned to colonize the New World? Who but the Indians would guarantee the settlers what they needed to know-about navigable rivers, provender crops, water supplies, and the like? (Townsend, 35). \nPowhatan was easy aware of what he was up against; never underestimating the power of the English settlers but never thinking of th emselves or their culture as i...