Reconstructing Virginia Algonquian

[Benjamin Barrett]

Linguists Find the Words, and Pocahontas Speaks Again 
By JOHN
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ford/index.html?inline=nyt-per> NOBLE WILFORD
 
In the new movie about Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in
North America, founded in 1607, the paramount Indian chief Powhatan asks
Capt. John Smith where his people came from. The sky?
 
Responding to the question, translated by an Indian whose smattering of
English probably came indirectly from the earlier failed Roanoke colony in
North Carolina, Smith replies: "The sky? No. We come from England, an island
on the other side of the sea."
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