The Park Service plans to shed light on pre-Colonial Indian society at the site where Pocahontas met John Smith. In December 1607, six months after the founding of the English settlement of Jamestown, ...

Twelve years earlier, in 1607, three ships carrying about 100 ... According to Captain John Smith, some finally resorted to cannabilism. One man even killed his wife in order to fill his stomach.

The English settlement of Jamestown was important for the future ... by a council that included the legendary military captain John Smith and was headed by Edward Maria Wingfield.

Designated as the first national water trail, the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail follows the historic routes of the English explorer’s voyages between 1607 and 1609 on ... about ...

[Editor's Note: The Indian people the Jamestown colonists encountered were known by the same name as their chief, Powhatan.] Q: According to John Smith's account of the famous event—when ...

On top of that, controversy also arises about whether or not Matoaka saved John Smith. When Smith first wrote about his experiences with the Powhatan people (in two letters in 1607 and 1612), he ...