The Anglo-Saxons in the British Isles & Virginia
Part 2

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Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia.

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War with the Powhatans

As the English presence in the Chesapeake Bay region increased, tensions with the Indians worsened. From the point of view of the English Virginians – the primary Indian enemy was the Powatan Tribe. The Powhatans were not a single tribe, instead the “tribe” was several Algonquin tribes united in a confederacy by Powhatan and his brothers. Tribes joined or left the confederacy through the first half of the seventeenth century.