Tag Archives: Powhatan

I’m not related to Pocahontas and neither are you

Posted on March 19, 2023 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Probably. Right up there next to the my-grandma-says-I’m-descended-from-a-Cherokee-princess thing is an almost-as-farfetched American white people myth: that you’re related to Pocahontas. It’s difficult to go a month in online forums about Native ancestry without someone claiming it. So it came … Continue reading →

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On this date… March 22, 1621 and 1622… Massachusetts and Virginia

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

March 22 was a significant date two years in a row. In 1621, Massasoit, the Great Sachem of the Wampanoags, negotiated a mutual defense pact with the Pilgrims recently ensconced at Patuxet, which they called Plymouth. Though his people were … Continue reading →

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