Plymouth single-cause story, generalized Indigenous fermentation and disease claims need independent corroboration; Pocahontas account is explicitly doubtful.
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The opening frames beer scarcity and water distrust as settlement motives and discusses Indigenous encounters.
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Beer, settlement and water narratives
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Evidence
The opening frames beer scarcity and water distrust as settlement motives and discusses Indigenous encounters.
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Steven Grasse, Colonial Spirits (Abrams Image, 2016), supplied PDF screens 18–26: Beer, settlement and water narratives. These locators refer to the supplied screenshot PDF, not printed pagination. Research paraphrase; no verbatim quotation is being asserted.
Qualification
Plymouth single-cause story, generalized Indigenous fermentation and disease claims need independent corroboration; Pocahontas account is explicitly doubtful.
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