I read the article thinking it was just going to be some boring history story about how the native americans where here first and the English then kicked them out, ect. just as we've always heard the story before, but to find out that the English and many Native Americans were allies agianst Powatan was surprising, along with the fact that their are still 8 native tribes still in Virginia. I also found it extremly interesting that John Smith mapped the new land. I knew that he was one of the first to make good connections with the indians, but not that he surveyed, and plotted the beginings of the new world. What surprised me the most was how they tracked back their anstestry 400 years, that is a heck of a long time. Technology seases to amaze me.