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Kalen Anderson
HIS 200: Applied History
Southern New Hampshire University
July, 7 2023
Preliminary Writing Plan
For my historical analysis, I have chosen to determine how the arrival of European
settlers in 1607, impacted the Powhtan confederacy in Virginia both politically and socially
through diplomacy. This important interaction was the beginning of
Native American diplomacy
seen in North America. Both sides had their own perspectives and narratives of the controversial
relationship between Europeans and Native Americans.
When investigating the cultural and political impacts of European arrival in Virginia, I
can also gain context of how the cultural landscape looked pre-contact for the Powhatan
confederacy. This will allow me to compare and contrast the socio-political structure after
European contact. The research question “How did Powhtan culture change or adapt to evolve
the Europeans socially and politically ?”
Did the interactions between the Powhatan nation and Europeans have positive or
negative implications for natives in Virginia in the early 17th century? This question allows me
to learn more about the pros and cons of the European and Indigenous relationship here in
Virginia at the time. Factors of peace and conflict are also topics that need to be discussed while
analyzing the research question.
Search terms that I have used in my research so far include: POWHATAN
CONFEDERACY, diplomacy and culture, CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH, trade and economy,
VIRGINIA, cultural landscape , and TREATIES.
A valuable secondary source that discusses the European arrival and its effect on the
Indigenous population is
Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures
by
Frederic W. Gleach ( April 2000). Gleach offers the most balanced and complete accounting of
the early years of the Jamestown colony to date. When English settlers established their first
permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607, they confronted a powerful and growing Native
chiefdom consisting of over thirty tribes under one paramount chief, Powhatan. For the next half-
century, a portion of the Middle Atlantic coastal plain became a charged and often violent
meeting ground between two very different cultures.
Another secondary source is
Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and
the Settlement of America
by Benjamin Wooly (April 2008). This book dives into the background
context of the Jamestown settlement and how the British Empire laid its foundation in North
America.Wooly through his writing reveals a reckless, daring enterprise led by outcasts of the
Old World who found themselves interlopers in a new one. An intimate story in an epic setting, it
shows how the land of the Powhatan came to be drawn into a new global order.
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