Wild turkeys flourished around the Jamestown colony in 1607 and throughout most of 17th and 18th century Virginia, when wild game was a food staple for colonists and settlers, who explored and deve… ...

As Jamestown marks the 400th anniversary of representative government and the arrival of the first enslaved Africans, Powhatan's descendants worry their place in its history is being overlooked.

Artifacts that have been recovered and restored from Jamestown Island in Jamestown, Virginia, are seen in June 2014. ... (c. 1607 to 1614), a Powhatan Indian Village, ...

By Teresa Annas The Virginian-Pilot By 1607, when the English first eyed the New World “salvages,” the Powhatan Indians had not only adapted to the eastern Virginia region they called T… ...

One of the earliest remnants of Britain’s settlement at Jamestown in 1607 will return to that James River site in May, on loan from Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. It is a deerskin mantle decorated ...

Soon after constructing the fort at Jamestown, two hundred Powhatan Indians unexpectedly attacked the new settlers, who had not yet unpacked their guns. By 1609, the fighting had subsided, but ...

Archeologists digging on a farm above the York River believe they have found Werowocomoco, principal village of the Indian chieftain Powhatan, who controlled the Virginia Tidewater when the English… ...

The Powhatan (Pow-a-tan) Indians of eastern Virginia were made up of around 30 towns covering approximately 100 by 100 square miles. They called this land Tesenacommacah, (T-sena- comm-a-cah.) ...

Wild turkeys flourished around the Jamestown colony in 1607 and throughout most of 17th and 18th century Virginia, when wild game was a food staple for colonists and settlers, who explored and ...

Jamestown Settlement founded, May 14, 1607. ... encampment in a swampy area and attacks from Powhatan Indians. Still, despite the hardships the community suffered in its early years, ...