The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History was written by Dr. Linwood “Little Bear” Custalow and Angela L. Daniel “Silver Star”. It is about the relationship between the Powhatan tribe and the English settlers of the early 1600’s. The fourth chapter of the book talks specifically about the crumbling relationship between the Powhatan and the English and how each of them has their own story of what really happened. The chapter begins with the alliance between the Powhatan and English slowly fading away. John Smith, one of the English leaders, started to demand food from the Powhatans. He put chiefs and leaders to gunpoint to get what he wanted. In fact, he once yelled: “You call yourself a Christian, yet you leave us with no food for the winter” (Custalow & Daniel 29). …show more content…
He wanted to keep peace with the English, but he didn’t think Smith should be treating him with disrespect after all he had done for them. John Smith said that when him and Chief Wahunsenaca met up, the Powhatans were planning to kill him. He said that Pocahontas warned him about their plans in the middle of the night. The Powhatans think that wasn’t the case. There is no way that Pocahontas could’ve got past all of the guards watching Smith. They also had no intentions of killing Smith. In fact, they voluntarily brought food to his ship the next day. There were two sets of writings from John Smith about these events. In 1608, he wrote, A True Relation. This somewhat goes along with what the Powhatans believed in. It depicted the Powhatans as welcoming and peaceful with the English colonist. In 1624, he wrote another piece. It was called General Historie of Virginia. This was after the “Uprising of 1622” (Custalow & Daniel 33). This was when John Smith’s opinion of these events really changed. After a battle between the Powhatan and the English, he wanted to make the Powhatan tribe look bad, and he wanted to make himself look more