Pocahontas Rescuing Captain Smith. Photo from the book,
Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars, by Jerry Keenan.
March, 1622, Opechancanough, son and successor of Chief Powhatan's Indian confederacy, shed their peaceful arrangement (Pocahontas) with the Jamestown colonists and commenced the first battle in the American/Indian war.
Detail of a map of Virginia in 1612 showing Powhatan
in the royal wigwam. Photo from the book,
Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars, by Jerry Keenan.
The following story is from the book, The American Indian Wars, by John Tebbel & Keith Jennison. 
...His somber eyes glared out with unquenched hatred at the crowd, and with the magnificent effort of will, he pulled himself from the litter and stood erect.
...His majestic air of command awed the white guards around him.
...The chief raised his arm and cried out to the governor, "If it had been my fortune to take Sir William Berkeley prisoner, I would not have meanly exposed him as a show to my people."
The following is from the book, Indian Wars, by Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn.
This 1622 engraving demonstrates the violence of the Jamestown massacre. Photo from the book, Encyclopedia of
American Indian Wars, by Jerry Keenan.
At the same time, Plymouth colonists were enjoying peaceful times for two reasons: one was an illness that had decimated the New England Indians from Rhode Island to Maine "the woods," Cotton Mather observed with characteristic self-righteousness, "were almost cleared of those pernicious creatures, to make room for a better growth."
The second was a treaty made with Chief Massasoit on March 22, 1621 which was interrupted by the Pequot War.
The following is from the book, Indian Wars, by Bill Yenne.
The following is from the book, Indian Wars, by Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn.
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