Patawomecks Article
How is it that after 400 years and 11 years of history classes, we only learn about the Patawomecks now? That's amazing that we have been living so close to the site of major historical occurances. I've never heard of the people in the article before, the history books don't go into great detail over these seemingly simple occurances. That video we watched near the beginning of the year ( about Jamestown and John Smith) said nothing of the other Indian encounters on his explorations. We always seem to focus on the Powhatans and the story of Pocahontas. What if the settlers had died due to their lack of food because the Powhatans were not willing to share? It's amazing that a minor detail like that was substanial in the long run. Also, I never thought of there being any tribes in Virginia. Sure there are reservations , but they seem to be centered out west, it just never occured to me that my neighbors might have some relations to the these Patawomecks(at least I don't think that they do).
posted by ChristineP | 1:41 PM
2 Comments:
Exactly. Wht don't we know about the history of the Potawomacks? We always learn about the Powhatans and John Smith's relationship with Pocohantas. Why do we skim over such a major fact that changed the course of history?
It is pretty interesting how we are just learning about the Patawomecks and they existed 400 years ago. It is pretty sweet that we could be on a historical site right now and we don't even realize it. Yeah why do we always focus on Pocahontas for the true story of Jamestown? How come we don't focus on what actually happened? Oh well I still like Christine's post.
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