RKPJAM_Jamestown

cordage. To Christina it was like magically being
transported back into history.
“Things seem so peaceful…and productive,”
she noted aloud, while thinking to herself—until the
white men came, when things must have changed
dramatically.
Soon, a pretty, young Powhatan girl walked
toward them. She held out her hand and said,
“Welcome to my village.”
“Are you Pocahontas, like in the movies?”
Grant asked.
The girl frowned just a little. “That’s makebelieve,”
she said. “What you see here is more like
how things really were. I represent a Powhatan girl
of that era. Let’s sit over here in the shade and I’ll
tell you some things you need to know.”
Surprised to get such special attention from
such an important person in history, the kids
excitedly followed the girl to a clearing in the trees
where they all sat criss/cross/applesauce as she
began her story.
“By the time the English colonists came to
this area, we native peoples had lived here for more
than 10,000 years,” the girl explained. “Chief
Powhatan ruled over more than 32 tribes. The
original Indians in this area had been hunters and
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