Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:Artifacts from an Indigenous village along the Rappahannock River have been discovered, confirming previously disputed historical record. John Smith (of Jamestown fame) wrote about the village in detail, but its precise location was previously unknown. Long discussed in Rappahannock oral tradition, the village site can now be preserved by the tribe’s modern members. For the average American, a man like Jamestown’s John Smith almost exclusively exists as a character in a dramatized history novel or a Disney film. More than 400 years after John Smith documented the Indigenous villages along the Rappahannock River, King led an archaeological team in that same area.