Powhatan Tribe

Powhatan Tribe

Food, Hunting and Gathering Techniques

Location, Location, Location

• Women Farmed corn, squash and beans using baskets to carry the food they harvested
• Men Hunted deer, turkeys and small game with bows and arrows. Dogs were used as pack animals
• Men also went fishing using spears and nets.

• The Powhatan Tribe is located where we now call Eastern Virginia
• The floodplains were a great source of food and travel for the Natives.

Clothing and Shelter

• Lived in Wigwams or Longhouses
• Some villages surrounded by log walls

• Men and women both wore earrings, moccasins and beaded headband with feathers

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Survival of the Powhatan Tribe

• Survived through peace treaties
• Lived through discrimination and ownership rights taken away
• Pocahontas acted as a liaison between natives and colonists.

Spiritual beliefs/ Music and Ceremonies

• Mainly Believed in 2 gods

• Ahone: creator god
• Okeus: War/ evil

• Believed in hierarchy of gods and spirits
• Healing was believed to be very spiritual
• Had two main classes

• Ceremonies were very Spiritual
• Main ceremony were midsummer celebrations.
• Had songs for every occasion.

Contact with Europeans

• Powhatan tribe interacted with Jamestown colony.
• Pocahontas was famously recognized for saving John Smith's life
• Powhatan tribe believed land to be sacred- the Jamestown settlement was firstly a colony and secondly a source of mining.
• English were told to kill 'Indians'- yet original meetings were quite peaceful.

Images

Information

Bibliography

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:North_America_laea_location_map.svg?uselang=ko: Picture of North America 14/08/13
• http://www.3dwallz.com: Picture of the World 14/08/13
• http://www.nps.gov/jame/historyculture/the-powhatan-indian-world.htm: Picture of Powhatan Hunter 17/08/13
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigwam: Wigwam 15/08/13
• http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/File:Traditional_longhouse.gif: Traditional Longhouse 14/08/13
• http://www.pauwau.com/chiefpowhatan.htm: Chief Powhatan 14/08/13
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powhatan: Ceremony 14/08/13

• http://www.historyisfun.org/visitus/documents/LivingwiththeIndians.pdf

-This website was very useful as it had very reliable information that when we cross-referenced it with other websites was very similar and if not the same just a little off. Also this organisation is a history organisation that have published several books that many historians use worldwide making this a very reliable point of information. General Information 20/08/13

• http://www.bigorrin.org/powhatan_kids.htm

Facts about Powhatan 17/08/13

• http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/static-legacy/ngm/jamestown/

-This is the national geographic website that has experts talking on camera about their perspectives on how the Powhatans live and the interactions between the early Jamestown settlement and the Native Americans. Not only does this website contain reliable information, but many of the sources from other websites we used cited National Geographic as their primary source. Jamestown Settlement 20/08/13

• http://pocahontas.morenus.org/

Real life vs. Disney 18/08/13

• http://www.native-languages.org/powhatan-legends.htm

-This website is very useful as it is almost a source sheet with websites that all contain very reliable information. This website not only provides sources but is commonly sourced website because it contains many fascinating facts that can all be backed up. Religion, Culture, Sources 21/08/13

• http://www.nps.gov/jame/historyculture/the-powhatan-indian-world.htm

20/08/13

• http://www.nativetech.org/clothing/regions/region1.html

Clothing 19/08/13

• http://apva.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=26

Pocahontas 19/08/13

• http://www.virginiamemory.com/online_classroom/shaping_the_constitution/doc/treaty

Peace Treaty 20/08/13

• http://www.ehow.com/info_8714789_spiritual-religious-beliefs-powhatan.html

Religion 14/08/13