'Pocohontas and The Powhatan Dilemma'

'In the early 16 hundreds, the Virginia Company of capital of the United Kingdom launched three ships to the Americas in effort to instal the first prospering face colony. The reaching of Captain toilet Smith and another(prenominal) settlers would mark the head start of a difference between the Powhatan due south and the slope, un sortable brutality, war, and dearth that would inevitably dissemble the lives of both. White settlers valued the Indians field and had the loudness to take it; the Indians could not live without their land (Townsend, 178). Powhatans quandary was that he would involve a determination to make on behalf of his people; would he choose to degrade Jamestown and risk the comer of more newcomers to penalize the settlers death; or, perhaps, he could make friends with the foreigners in hopes that through switch over (corn for guns and other worth(predicate) goods), he could secure power and in turn annul surrounding tribes who potentially pose d a threat.\nMost colonists travelled to the untested public in assay for new beginnings, lucullan forests, foreign animals, commodious and profitable farmland, metallic and silver, while others voyaged crossways the dangerous seas for the gripe and adventure of it. at once arriving in the New terra firma, it would be essential for the English settlers to be equipped with the staple fibre knowledge of their foreign lands. The Native Americans were neither inexperienced nor destitute. Although the English settlers possessed large technological advances that the Indians did not, Powhatan knew that they would depose solely on his people to give instruction them on the shade of land. How had the settlers planned to colonise the New World? Who but the Indians would tell the settlers what they needed to know-about navigable rivers, food crops, wet supplies, and the like? (Townsend, 35).\nPowhatan was easily aware of what he was up against; neer underestimating the power of the English settlers but never thinking of themselves or their culture as i... '