Meanwhile, back in Virginia, the Chickahominy natives, who weren’t under Wahunsenacah’s confederacy, helped feed the lazy British settlers, who still hadn’t planted enough food to feed themselves. When Wahunsenacah died in April 1618, the natives decided to stop offering government assistance to the settlers. Ending this welfare-to-work program would doom the unskilled English encroachers. They desperately needed help. The only thing that could possibly save the English colony would be an influx of immigrants who knew what they were doing.
