Problems
•Native American hostility
•Food shortages and lack of planning
•Salt poisoning
•Diseases such as dysentery and typhoid fever
•and drought
Center 2: Native Americans Relations
John Smith’s Chesapeake Voyage 1607-1609
The Native American groups living on those lands and using the bay were not carbon copies of one another. The people living near each other spoke similar dialects, but the farther apart people lived, the more difficulty they had understanding one another. The speech of the Algonquian speakers of North Carolina (Roanokes and others), the Maryland Eastern Shore (Nanticokes and others), and Virginia (collectively called Powhatans) may have differed enough that we can recognize at least three separate languages. The Spanish had already noticed the region’s linguistic diversity in the 1570’s. (page 27)
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