Jamestown survived its early years because of the aid given by the Native American chief called Powhatan.
He was the Native American Indian leader of his tribe that helped the firsts settlers of the colony of Jamestown, in what today is Virginia. He is also the father of the Indian woman Pocahontas that married John Smith. The relationship between the tribe and the colonist was not easy and had its ups and downs, buy one way or the other, Powhatan saw the white Europeans as possible allies against the enemies of his tribe.
