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Which native people did White portray on his watercolor sketches?

Comanche
Iroquois
Cherokee
Algonkin

Answer

John White was a 16th-century English artist, explorer, and governor of the short-lived colony of Roanoke Island. He was the first European to portray the Algonquian people in his watercolor sketches, which are now among the earliest visual records of the indigenous peoples of the United States.