John Smith was a leader in the Jamestown settlement. John Smith was very heroic in many ways and did many things to keep the settlers in Jamestown alive. One of the less honorable things he did was lying. When the colonist came to Jamestown there was a terrible drought; therefore their crops didn't grow. When John Smith went looking for food he was captured by Indians or as we now say Native Americans. Instead of telling the truth to the chief, he told him that they were fighting the Spanish and their ship had been wrecked on the their coast. When the chief asked why they had come so far into his land John Smith said it was because they were going to attack the very tribe the chief's tribe was now fighting. So peace was made between the tribe and the settlers. The peace was increased when a different leader John Rolfe married the chief’s daughter.