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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. (more…)