[Editor's Note: The Indian people the Jamestown colonists encountered were known by the same name as their chief, Powhatan.] Q: According to John Smith's account of the famous event—when ...

I erected a life-size bronze statue at Waterworks Visual Art Gallery here in Salisbury. We have had plenty of positive ...

John Smith was captured by a relative of Powhatan ... Richardson, the Rappahannock chief, believes Powhatan wasn’t trying to kill Smith but to bring his colony into his chiefdom. Turner noted that ...

Another accuracy was the location, as Chief Powhatan was the leader of the Powhatan Confederacy, in what is now the state of Virginia. The real-life John Smith was documented as one of the ...

The plot goes that Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves English adventurer John Smith from execution when British relations with the "savages" in the New World turned sour.