Volume 16 , Issue 44

NW Okie's Journey

We are going to research the true history of Pocahontas and the Powhatan chief of Virginia this week. When I was in school they only taught one side of the Pocahontas story, and that was the white, European and English side of the story.

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Walking With Sadie

On this second day of the Winter Soltice 2014, this Sadie Pug is dreaming of a white christmas and by Monday morning we awoke to about four inches of that white, wet stuff on the ground. And . . . It is still coming down. Woof! Woof! Hooray!


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The True Story of Pocahontas (Matoaka)

Remember when you were taught in school about Pocahontas (real name Matoaka) and John Smith at Jamestown? There was another side, the Native American's true history of Pocahontas. The true Pocahontas story has a sad ending. At the age of 17, in 1612, Pocahontas was treacherously taken prisoner by the English while she was on a social visit, and was held hostage at Jamestown for over a year.

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Powhatan History

The Powhatan people were the native natural people of America, and descendants of an ancient confederation that once included over thirty nations. They maintained a history of thousands of years of settlement along the coastal areas of the mid-Atlantic. The oldest treaty written in America was between the Powhatan Nations in the year 1646.

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Matoaka (Amonute, Pocahontas & Rebecca Rolfe)

Thinking back to my early schooling and the history we were taught it was nothing like the Powhatan Indian history of Poncahontas. We shall try to present the other side of that history here.

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Captain John Smith, English Colonist

We all know through our schooling were taught that Captain John Smith and Pocahontas were famously linked linked. Captain Smith, arriving in Virginia with just more than a hundred other settlers in April 1607.

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The Tsenacommacah

Tsenacommacah (speak: Sen-ah-cóm-ma-cah, variously spelled as Tenakomakah, Tscenocomoco, Tsenacomoco, Attanoughkomouck, and Attan-Akamik - 'densely inhabited land') is the name given by the Powhatan Indians to their native homeland, the area encompassing all of Tidewater Virginia and parts of the Eastern Shore.

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Virginia Algonquian Groups

The following list of Virginia Algonquian groups is based on the accounts of English settlers, whose interest lay primarily in Indian military power. The locations were those of capital towns as shown in Smith's map, and any relevant archaeological reports on these towns were cited.

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