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In the essay The Generall Historie by John Smith, Smith points out the different relationships between the Chickahominy and Powhatan Indians and the early Jamestown colonists. On the one hand, the Chickahominy and the Powhatan Indians seemed to be allies, where both tribes refused to trade with the colonists, and both looked down towards the colonists. On the other hand, the relationship between the colonists and the native tribes weren’t going as well, due to colonists’ main goal to expand further, which that is invading natives’ land. Both the native tribes worked together, not to trade with the colonists in their early settlements. Some of the issues the Jamestown colonists dealt with during the first years of settlement are the lack of
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