[outofsalt]

The Yankees distort history too as Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in spite of the Powhatans.
http://historicjamestowne.org/history/history-of-jamestown/

[Verginius Rufus]

Powhatan's brother Openchancanough led an attempt in 1622 to wipe out all the white colonists in Virginia (they didn't try to kill the Africans, a few of whom were there by then). A sizeable number were killed.

Benjamin Franklin's maternal grandfather, Peter Folger (1617-1690), learned the language of the local Indians and spoke out against the Puritans' oppression of the Indians--he saw King Philip's War as God's punishment of them for their sin of persecution.