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Powhatan Wars and the Jamestown Massacre.

1622

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The Powhatan Wars are fought between British settler-colonists and the Powhatan people over land that is now Virginia, which was stolen from Indigenous people for agricultural use by white settler-colonists. Also known as the “Jamestown Massacre," this conflict is often identified as the first Native-settler battle on what is now U.S. soil. The Royal British Virginia Company orders the extermination of the entire Powhatan community.