The Natives were not Cannibals, nor were they present during that Winter. It was the Natives who showed the Colonist how to survive the Winters and brought them food.

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> From: Carole D. Bryant <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] 
>Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 10:59 AM
>Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] The Starving Time
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>... but how do they know it was the colonists who killed her ?    Perhaps 
>the Indians did it.
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>
>In a message dated 5/2/2013 1:24:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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>The  Washington Post of 1 May 2013 has a story about the discovery in 
>Jamestown of  forensic evidence of cannibalism, perhaps from the Starving time of 
>1609-1610:
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/skeleton-of-teenage-gi
>rl-confirms-cannibalism-at-jamestown-colony/2013/05/01/5af5b474-b1dc-11e2-9a
>98-4be1688d7d84_story.html?hpid=z2<blocked::http://www.washingtonpost.com/na
>tional/health-science/skeleton-of-teenage-girl-confirms-cannibalism-at-james
>town-colony/2013/05/01/5af5b474-b1dc-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html?hpid=
>z2>
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>Brent  Tarter
>The Library of  Virgnia
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