1. Pocahontas Conclusions
What conclusion did you come to?
A. Pocahontas did save John Smith’s life
B. Pocahontas didn’t save John Smith’s life – he made it up for fame, glory, money, etc.
C. Pocahontas didn’t save John Smith’s life – he just misunderstood a ritual
Conflicting sources…what types are more reliable?

2. Native Americans & Encounters

4. Reading Read the article excerpt aloud with your partner
Record the 4 main points
Raise your hand if you have any questions

5. Native Americans Strongly developed societies Lack of iron (weapons)
Strengths:
Disadvantages:
Strongly developed societies
Knowledge & technologies
Hunting & planting crops
Use of copper and bronze
Lack of iron (weapons)
Lack of horses
Susceptible to European diseases
Over 1,000 tribes (division/conquest)

6. Despite significant disadvantages…
Native Americans continued to fight against Europeans taking their land…for hundreds of years

7. Native Americans & The Colonies
Variety of interactions
Peaceful/trade
Warring
Quickly destroyed
French & Dutch settlers
Fur trade focus
Permanent trading with Native Americans
English settlers
Focus on gaining land (for farms/fish)
Led to killing of Native Americans & exploitative land deals

8. Smallpox
Southern New England tribes declined from 65,000 to 10,000

9. Pequot War
Native Americans who refused to give up their lands often attacked
1636 – Massachusetts settlers attack Pequots
Set fire to Pequot village
Shot & killed fleeing men, women & children
Pequots attacked in return
Hundreds of Pequots killed in their villages
Colonists captured remaining Pequots, sold them into slavery, took the land & declared the Pequot nation dissolved