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Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

History Is Fun: Powhatan's Challenge and Opechancanough's Action [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the interactions between the Powhatan and the English, the different leadership styles of the brothers Wahunsonacock and Opechancanough, and the events leading up to the Powhatan War and Opechancanough's defeat.
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Virginia Foundation for the Humanities: Virginia Indian Heritage Trail [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This 92-page guide has accurate information on tribes and sites in Virginia. It has tribal histories, biographies of well-known historical figures, photographs, and suggested readings.
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Lesson Plan
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

History Is Fun: Life at Jamestown [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An extensive collection of resources for learning about the colony of Jamestown. Includes essays, lesson plans, biographies, the economics of tobacco, information about laws, leadership, and a culminating project where young scholars...
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Primary
Other

Virtual Jamestown: The Powhatan Indian Attack of March 22, 1622

For Students 9th - 10th
Virtual Jamestown describes the relations between the English colonists and the Powhatan. Causes are listed for the attack of the Powhatan on the settlement at Jamestown.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Britain in the New World: War and Peace With Powhatan's People

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about how Powhatan and his tribe initially helped the English settlers in Jamestown, but ultimately went to war. Find out about why the different views about land ownership exacerbated the tension between the two cultures.
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: The Native American Chief Who Drove Out Spanish Colonists and Nearly Expelled the English

For Students 9th - 10th
In the summer of 1561, Spanish explorers abducted Opechancanough, a Powhatan Indian youth from the Chesapeake Bay tidewater region and brought him to the royal court of Spain. The kidnapping set off a chain of events that would alter the...
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Activity
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Baydreaming: Powhatan

For Students 9th - 10th
Wahunsonacock, Chief Powhatan, was the leader of the Powhatan nation of farmers and hunters during the colonization of America.