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1644–1646

ViolenceBook sources

Third Anglo-Powhatan War and dispossession

Virginia; Powhatan peoples

English campaigns against villages and fields intensified displacement and colonial control. Surviving Native communities faced a much more restricted position within the colony.

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Context / qualification

Dunbar-Ortiz calls this the Tidewater War.

Sources

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 4

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Indigenous societies and colonial beginnings

European expansion transformed existing Indigenous worlds and began the legal and economic systems that would racialize land, labor, and belonging.

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