... the colonists" ships in Manhattan as the Indians saw it, thinking it was the "Supreme Being" coming to pay them a visit. " [The Indians] concluded it to be a large canoe or house, in which the great Mannitto himself was, and that he probably was coming to visit them. By this time the chiefs of the different tribes were assembled on York Island ... English sacked the Confederacy. Powhatan's son led the tribe against them in a counter attack, which destroyed a third of the population of Jamestown. This news reached Europe, which resulted in a wholesale slaughter of the Indians. By 1669, f...

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