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How Did Jamestown Survive in a Governed Indigenous World? - Tobacco and the End of Powhatan Independence | Sleepy Facts About History
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In 1607, the English arrived in a territory that was already a complete, governed world. Tsenacomoco was a sophisticated paramount chiefdom of roughly thirty Algonquian-speaking tribes under the authority of Wahunsenaca. The English colonists, poorly supplied and searching for profit, survived their early years not through grit, but because the Powhatan leadership made a calculated decision to contain them through managed coexistence and trade. This episode examines how that fragile…
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