As the English were just entering Tsenacomoco, located on the eastern side of Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay, the Algonquin-speaking Indians of Virginia known as the Powhatan attacked from within the woods using bow and arrows. From this, the English colonists returned fire with their muskets. The Powhatan Indians retreated to their village known as Wereocomoco and alarmed their chief, Wahunsunacock more commonly known as Chief Powhatan. The English settlers followed the Powhatan Indians to their village where they were immediately greeted by about seventy warriors with brightly painted faces, ready to attack. The year is 1607 and the place as we know it today is Jamestown, Virginia. The Powhatans were such a large group that they were known as the Powhatan Confederacy. The confederation consisted of nearly 14,000 Algonquin-speaking people from thirty different tribes. The Powhatan confederacy was ruled by a person Helen Rountree calls mamanatowick or "Great King." Chief Powhatan had weroances in charge of the individual tribes under his control. In English terms, weroance means little chief or commander. Weroances gained title through matrilineal kinship. Nearly all were Powhatan's sons. This article provides information on the impact that English settlers, called Tassantassas by Native Americans meaning “foreigners or foreigners,” had on the Powhatans' loss of their land. The clash between these two completely different cultures led to the end of the Powhatan Confederacy. In due course, as Queen Elizabeth I, who founded the Virginia Company, ordered the English to colonize the Chesapeake area without regard to the hardships imposed on the Powhatan. ... half of the paper ... bor to tend the crops as poor immigrants offered their service to the New World if passage was granted to them free of charge. They promised to work as indentured servants to pay for their journey. In short, in a thirty-seven year period with three wars, increased trade, and English population during this time, the Powhatans ended up losing the battle to maintain their position. Earth. With the invasion of the English who assumed it was their God-given right to establish a colony on the land that Powhatan informed them he would not use them immediately, being denied weapons for trade which ultimately started the first of the three wars , the Powhatan Confederacy was doomed to collapse. Ultimately, the complete elimination of the Powhatans was due to greed. The greed of the English for land, land to grow tobacco on which in turn brought the money back into the hands of Queen Elizabeth I.