The Pamunkey tribe played “a vital role” with English colonists who arrived at Jamestown in 1607, according to the group’s website. Pocahontas, who was born around 1596, was the daughter of ...

The Park Service plans to shed light on pre-Colonial Indian society at the site where Pocahontas met John Smith. In December 1607, six months after the founding of the English settlement of Jamestown, ...

To start, Pocahontas was just a nickname ... wrote about his experiences with the Powhatan people (in two letters in 1607 and 1612), he characterized his time there as rather nice and never ...