Description
How exactly the young boy Totakins got to London is not specified in the few records that refer to him, although we know that early colonists and explorers in the Powhatan homeland of Tsenacomoco were often given directions to abduct or otherwise obtain Indigenous children in order to “civilize” them through baptism and instruction in English language and culture. We do know that Totakins lived with Virginia Company investor Thomas Smythe, who no doubt used the boy as proof of the possibilities of colonization in the “New World.” Totakins’s fate is unknown.
Bibliographic sources
Thrush, Indigenous London, 44, 48, 58.