Chapter Four: The First Anglo-Powhatan War.

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In the Summertime the Native Americans would often walk around naked because of how hot it was, to them it wasn't sexual. But to the Englishmen it was shocking and since the men already saw the Indigenous peoples as 'less than human' and hadn't been with a woman in a long time.

Woman and children were taken and sexually assaulted by the colonizers. In the Powhatan Culture, if a man committed sexual assault they were immediately killed, so as soon as they were known as a rapist or murderer they were executed immediately because the tribe did not want those traits passing down through more children.

 But in England rape and murder was easy to get away with because women were accused of lying and had to have a witness (funny how it's 2020 and nothing has changed over hundreds of years). As soon as the Powhatans found out about the sexual assault going on the first and not last Anglo-Powhatan War started.

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