Though Natives signed a second deed to the island in 1657, it was annulled months later when the Dutch purchasers failed to deliver the goods promised for the land.
Why did the Natives sign over the land?
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commonplace.online commonplace.online
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www.whatitmeanstobeamerican.org www.whatitmeanstobeamerican.org
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the son of an Odawa mother and a French father
There have been many text written about how the lives of natives and europeans were mingled and combined. This was the first that has showed how they developed relationships and created children of mixed race.
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And we know this because in his surviving notes are written sentences like "Tell Pocahontas to bring me three baskets." Or "Pocahontas has many white beads."
Did the Europeans give her the name of Pocahontas or was it created for the story? I find this confusing because I am aware this is not her real name but where did it originate?
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That story that Pocahontas was head over heels in love with John Smith has lasted for many generations. He mentioned it himself in the Colonial period as you say.
Was this story started by John Smith?
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30 Algonquian-speaking tribes in and around the area that the early English settlers would claim as Jamestown, Virginia. Years later—after no one was able to dispute the facts—John Smith wrote about how she, the beautiful daughter of a powerful native leader, rescued him, an English adventurer, from being executed by her father
Is this story true or was this made up for the story of Pocahontas.
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In southern New England, according to Roger Williams, Native people called the English “Cháuquaquock, that is, Knive‐men
Why did the Natives give the Europeans that name?
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he women at once began to prepare houses for them, as is their custom when new guests arrive,
Was this every woman's reaction? Or were there some native who were in fear of seeing a ship of people who looking completely different from them full of men. Typically their guest were other natives probably on foot or canoes.
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The approaching quincentenary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Caribbean is stimulating much discussion about how the native peoples of the New World per- ceived and reacted to European intruders during the sixteenth century.
I found this interesting they used the term "intruders" because many articles written about Christopher Columbus and his crew as saviors and rescuing the natives. They picture them as providing them with a beautiful life instead of what they actually did which was come in and take over their land and life.
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