A Daily Riot.: Jamestown, The Powhatan Confederacy, and the Myth of Pocahontas

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• In 1607, 32 Native Nations comprised the Powhatan Confederacy. It had over 15,000 people
• Many times when maps of the regions were created in 1607 and around then, Native villages would be whipped off of them and made to look sparse to support the idea of North America being a ‘void’.
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