Journals of Discovery

We have been spending a lot of time in class this week looking at the Jamestown settlement in present-day Virginia.One of the options was to find a picture that related to one of the journeys and this is a painting I found of the actual settlement:

 There are a few things I found wrong with this picture:
 1) Look at the big fancy houses in the back-round...I'm pretty sure that's not what the bunkers looked like.
2) There is no wall anywhere signifying that all of Jamestown was surrounded by a fort.
3) The Native Americans look pretty friendly with the Jamestown settlers in this painting. That was the complete opposite of the truth, the Native Americans were on of Jamestown's main threats. Many people died in Jamestown due to Native American arrows.

It does look like someone in the middle though is suffering of something, because he's laying on the ground. Maybe this whole painting is a symbol of the sick person in the middle spreading his disease to the other colonists and the Native Americans.


this is where i got my picture:
http://www.boisestate.edu/socwork/dhuff/us/chapters/chapter%202.htm