Pamunkey most powerful. Powhatan and his daughter Matoaka (Pocahontas), who achieved historical fame, were Pamunkey Native Americans. Captain Samuel Argall abducted her as a hostage in an attempt to secure the release of some English prisoners and ammunitions held by her father. Initial contact with Europeans was around 1570. "And from [1570] on at ever briefer intervals until the first permanent English colony was established at Jamestown in 1607, the Powhatan Confederacy was visited by white men: Spanish, French, and English." (Barbour, 5). Scholars estimate that when the English arrived in 1607, this paramount chiefdom numbered about 14,000–21,000 people. Colonists of
The Woman Who Lived Ricefor students of English language reading in 26 July 2018. The Woman Who Lived "The Woman Who Lived" is the sixth episode of the ninth series of the British sci-fi series "Doctor Who". It was first broadcast on BBC One on 24 October 2015. It was written by Catherine Tregenna and directed by Ed Bazalgette. The episode is set in England, 1651, featuring a highwayman revealed to be Ashildr (now going by the name of "Me" and under the alias of The Knightmare) and "her fire breathing accomplice", when "The Doctor, on the trail of an alien artifact, is brought