1) Sourcing: Who is the audience of this speech? How do you know? 2) Close Reading: According to line 2, what have the Native Americans provided the colonists with?
3) Close Reading: What kind of solution does Powhatan argue for? Cite evidence to support your claim.
4) Close Reading and Corroboration: Paying close attention to lines 1 & 2, how would you describe the tone of Powhatan while delivering this speech? How would you describe his emotional state? How would you compare it to that of King Philip and Miantonomo?

Iam told that hundreds if not thousands of these (armenians) were sent at once to the front ranks at the dardanelles, where death in a very short space of time is almost a certainty. the older men were then deported into the interior, while the women and children, when not carried off in an opposite direction, were left to shift for themselves as best they could. the terrible feature of this deportation up to date is that it has been carried out on such a basis as to render it practically impossible in thousands of cases that these families can ever again be reunited. not only wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, but even mothers and their little children have been dispersed in such a manner as to preclude practically all hope that they will ever see each other again. according to this excerpt, what does the author consider to be the worst part of the deportation during the armenian genocide?