[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 ...

John Smith had a genius for adventures ... They called it Fort James, but soon the settlement came to be known as Jamestown. For a church, they nailed a board between two trees to serve as ...

By Bill Lapadat This year America celebrates the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, the first permanent European settlement in America. It is truly a story of human qualities like cooperation, ...

The Park Service plans to shed light on pre-Colonial Indian society at the site where Pocahontas met John Smith. In December 1607, six months after the founding of the English settlement of Jamestown, ...

Jamestown is an excellent example of how early ... The colony was led by a council that included the legendary military captain John Smith and was headed by Edward Maria Wingfield.

Next they went after the horses. According to Captain John Smith, some finally resorted to cannabilism. One man even killed his wife in order to fill his stomach. By the spring of 1610 ...

Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

Don is joined once again by Mark Summers, Educational Director of Youth and Public Programmes for Jamestowne Rediscovery. They explore the shifting alliances, conflicts, and consequences that shaped ...

Must Jamestown’s Historic Character Be Destroyed ... Read more about Protecting the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail Fact Sheet Protecting the Captain John Smith Chesapeake ...

Continuation of the full-length cartoon about the adventures of Pocahontas, the daughter of an Indian chief. In 1614, John Smith returns to Jamestown, where he meets Pocahontas again.