1 10 2 https://www.lva.virginia.gov/collections/educator-resources/changemakers/files/original/521d2f4e2b09af0bf50330b9fd3defc3.jpg 3bc14228bed4470decb1c6888819fabb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Americas Description An account of the resource The study of American history begins more than 30,000 years ago with the arrival of the first peoples on the continent. Ancient societies existed in both North and South America, and would interact differently with European colonial powers. While the Vikings forayed onto American soil first, it was the late 15th century Columbian voyages that truly set the stage for the collision of cultures. These conquistadors were met with native populations undergoing their own changes and growth, the paths of which would be in some cases drastically altered by the arrival of more and more Europeans. The previous years of economic growth, innovation and religious issues led to an increase in trans-oceanic voyages and the development of colonial systems in the Americas, and the introduction of African slaves to both continents. There were major changes brought about during this time period. Populations were redistributed, both willingly and by force. Europe developed the first trans-oceanic empires, a system that would continue far past the American Revolution. Economic and commercial growth increased with the introduction of new natural resources and new labor forces. Finally, while Western Europe moved away from the idea of slavery and serfdom, these ideas had already taken hold in the colonies, most notably in the plantation system. Learn more in the National U.S. History Content Standards. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Beginnings to 1607 Person An individual. Death Date 1617 Birth Date ca. 1596 Birthplace Jamestown Biographical Text The daughter of Powhatan, the powerful paramount chief of the Algonquin Indians in eastern Virginia, Pocahontas (d. March 1617) was about eleven years old when the English colonists arrived at Jamestown in 1607. Although she had been named Matoaka and later adopted Rebecca as her name at the time of her marriage, she has been best known for four centuries by her nickname Pocahontas. John Smith later credited her as saving his life after he had been captured by Indians who took him to the town of Werowocomoco, Powhatan's home. She became a trusted visitor to the fort at Jamestown, delivering messages and food. She was known for her high spirits and was described as turning cartwheels around the fort with English boys. During the first Anglo-Powhatan War, Pocahontas was kidnapped by the English in April 1613 and held in captivity for a year. She met John Rolfe, a planter, and agreed to marry him and convert to Christianity. Their wedding on April 5, 1614, resulted in an interim of general peace in the colony. When the deputy governor sailed for England in 1616 to raise the colony's profile and funds for the Virginia Company, Pocahontas went with him along with her husband and infant son and others. While in London she attended balls, plays, and other social events, had an audience with the bishop of London, and was presented to the king. Her family planned to return to Virginia in March 1617, but Pocahontas died before their ship left and was buried on March 21, 1617, in St. George's Church, Gravesend, England. During the 19th century, the story of Pocahontas and how she saved John Smith became legendary in the history of Virginia's founding, while obscuring the life of a courageous young woman who strove to help her people through her actions. <a href="https://edu.lva.virginia.gov/changemakers/va-women-2000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2000</a> Virginia Women in History honoree, Virginia Foundation for Women and Delta Kappa Gamma Society International. Bibliography Image Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pocahontas Subject The topic of the resource Virginia Women In History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000 Virginia Women in History Honoree Description An account of the resource The daughter of the powerful paramount Indian chief, Pocahontas has become enshrined in American history as a savior of the Virginia colony. Community Leadership and Philanthropy Government and Law https://www.lva.virginia.gov/collections/educator-resources/changemakers/files/original/4d82ecfe1297a53f4a59c8a3de05bb1d.jpg 96d7c1cae0510492ee43d4cb4afa125c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Americas Description An account of the resource The study of American history begins more than 30,000 years ago with the arrival of the first peoples on the continent. Ancient societies existed in both North and South America, and would interact differently with European colonial powers. While the Vikings forayed onto American soil first, it was the late 15th century Columbian voyages that truly set the stage for the collision of cultures. These conquistadors were met with native populations undergoing their own changes and growth, the paths of which would be in some cases drastically altered by the arrival of more and more Europeans. The previous years of economic growth, innovation and religious issues led to an increase in trans-oceanic voyages and the development of colonial systems in the Americas, and the introduction of African slaves to both continents. There were major changes brought about during this time period. Populations were redistributed, both willingly and by force. Europe developed the first trans-oceanic empires, a system that would continue far past the American Revolution. Economic and commercial growth increased with the introduction of new natural resources and new labor forces. Finally, while Western Europe moved away from the idea of slavery and serfdom, these ideas had already taken hold in the colonies, most notably in the plantation system. Learn more in the National U.S. History Content Standards. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Beginnings to 1607 Person An individual. Birthplace Chesterfield County Death Date 1610 Occupation Weroansqua Biographical Text Opossunoquonuske (died late in 1610) was a sister of Coquonasum, a weroance, or chief, of the Appamattuck Indians, one of several Powhatan tribes in league with the paramount chief, Powhatan. She was the weroansqua, or chief, of one of the Appamattuck towns near the mouth of the Appomattox River. The town was populous enough to put about twenty able fighting men into the field. Captain John Smith described her as young and comely. Opossunoquonuske was one of the first Virginia Indian leaders the English met in 1607. Englishmen called her the queen of Appamattuck. On May 26, Captain Christopher Newport visited her at what Englishmen called "Queene Apumatecs bower." She made a majestic entrance with her attendants and would "permitt none to stand or sitt neere her." Dignified and dressed more elegantly than anyone else, she wore a copper crown, and other copper jewelry adorned her ears and encircled her neck. Her long black hair hung down to the middle of her back. Gabriel Archer intended it as a compliment when he called her "a fatt lustie manly woman." Opossunoquonuske did not flinch, as other Indian leaders did, when at her request one of Newport’s men fired his gun. The Appamattuck were wary of colonists who remained in their vicinity. In the summer of 1610 Opossunoquonuske invited several of the Englishmen to come unarmed to her town, where her men killed all but one, who escaped. In retaliation, the English burned her town and killed several people. Mortally wounded, she reportedly died in the winter. About Christmas 1611, Sir Thomas Dale raided the granaries of an Appamattuck town, killed or dispersed the people, and renamed the area Bermuda Hundred. <a href="https://edu.lva.virginia.gov/changemakers/va-women-2007" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2007</a> Virginia Women in History honoree, Library of Virginia. Bibliography Image Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Opossunoquonuske Subject The topic of the resource Virginia Women In History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007 Virginia Women in History Honoree Community Leadership and Philanthropy Government and Law