hello, there! welcome to the 16 hundreds! you are in the time of Pocahontas, the daughter of the chief, Powhatan ( pronounced POW-HOT-IN) . now, this is when the iroquis were still strong! powhatan fought, oh, I will say, about 20 battles with them. OK, lets go to the band of warriors. a strong, honored warrior was called a brave.  the warriors were always painted. black, from head to toe, was for solemn tribal matters, like hard decisions. red, yellow, black, and green, were for war. I DONT believe you want to know what those colors meant! also, do you know what all names pocahontas had? lets see........oh, here! her names were matoaka (little playful one) , pocahontas ( favorite daughter ), rebbeca ( her favorite bible character ) and, white feather. if you were talked about here, in comoco, or potamac, or any other village, you would be called, bearded strangers, tassentassies ( skunks ) pale strangers, bearded strangers, white soldiers ( even if  you were a lady ) , and then white strangers.  the kind of buildings? oh, they had wigwams, and long houses. ( one for each village ) the wigwams were for the common indians, as well as one for prisoners. the longhouse was home to the chief. as well as a council place. the Quiowcosuk, or the priest of Okewas, was always dressed as black as possible, pretty much. he wore black at every time he visited the village, as he lived apart from the village. If you were a leader in the jamestown people, you would be called a 'chief among the pale ones/tassentassies/' ect. the warriors were painted in their war colors when there was any type of death, or green, in times of burial.  Do you know the kind of drink that the indians were most interested in, that came with the white men? MILK! They had never seen milk, and they certainly had never thought you could milk bison! they were called buffalo wrongly, because they are hardley related to the water buffalo of africa, or europe! the white settelers called them 'humped oxen' because of the HUGE humps on the back of the animal. WERE they ever surprised when they landed and found strawberries 5 TIMES as big as in europe! and the strange artichokes! And they were amazed when they saw the american turkey! they had wondered, "what is that strange bird?" and they had never saw ringneck pheasants either! they were amazed of the beauty of the bird! they shot hundreds of them to stuff, and to keep the feathers, and then they found out they were good to eat! they shot more of them! of course, when they stopped hunting them so much, the animals jumped back up on their population! For, they laid about 12 eggs, safely hidden. but, the bison were different!!  they shot more, and more, and more, and more, for specimens, food, hide, teeth, bones, and any other thing they found, then. the buffalo herds were dissapearing! the indians were ANGRY! they fought the white men, but, with the cannons ( called thundersticks) and guns ( called the small thundersticks), the white men were stronger than the indians! they also had horses to run after the runaways! soon, the number of indians were declining, too! the indians were now frightened! the iroquis were scared when the men shot two of the chiefs down with a cannon! then, powhatan was dead, and the indians had no wise rule over them, anymore! they had metacomet, powhatan's son, lead them to battle against the pilgrims, and they were diffeated ( the indians, not the pilgrims )! they were now more frightened! they had the iroquis help them, but they still lost! was this a need to fight the indians? no, they could have at least saved a little indian space! they pushed every indian into a small space just next to the mississippi. well, you might wonder  "how did they fit there?" well, as you might know, there were very few indians, scattered through the americas! their were only about a 50 in every village! so, their are about as many as in a small town.

     the white men had come to take over america. the indians had no rule in their old home.

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