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A brief biography that highlights some important events in the life of the woman who helped to bring about peace and friendship between English settlers in Virginia and the native Powhatan people.

A biography of the Powhatan Indian woman who befriended the English settlers at Jamestown, Virginia, and helped maintain peace between her tribe and the colonists.

Pocahontas was only eleven years old when, on her kneesm she begged her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare the life of the captured Englishman John Smith. According to trival custom, this act made her "brother", a kinship she never forgot. But relations between the Indians and the white settlers at the Jamestown colony were ever-changing. For ten more years, Pocahontas would be caught up in the tensions separating the two cultures. And before there...

"Describes the life and time of Pocahontas and the First Colonies"--

A brief account of the life of the Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.

A simple biography of the seventeenth-century Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.

A brief account of the life of the Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.

"Countless schoolchildren have heard the tale of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, and movies and books have long perpetuated the English-colonists' version of the story. Now, for the first time in 400 years, the Native voice rings out, revealing the true account of Pocahontas's life and the tragic events surrounding her capture.". "This significant book shares the sacred and previously unpublished oral history of the Mattaponi tribe, one of the...