Pocahontas
By: Diane Thao
Well Known:
3 Interesting Facts:
* She saved him from her father's death sentence.
* Pocahontas said to have intervention of saving the lives of individual colonists.
John Smith
She saved the life of John Smith and developed a complex friendship. The imagined relationship between John Smith and Pocahontas romanticizes the theme of assimilation, and dramatizes the meeting of two cultures. She then even became responsible for John.
Jamestown
Where the Powhantan's met John Smith and the English Colonists. She created many memories in Jamestown. Pocahontas was a frequent visitor to Jamestown. She delivered messages from her father and accompanied Indians bringing food and furs to trade for hatchets and trinkets.
Peace
Her most important goal was to make peace between the Powhatan's and the English. But was then kidnapped. Pocahontas was baptised as a Christian, and married John Rolfe in 1614. Her new name was Lady Rebecca Rolfe. She gave birth to a son, Thomas. This marriage created the "Peace of Pocahontas", six years of peace between the Jamestown colonists and Powhatan's tribes.
5 Interesting Facts:
*Out of hundreds of other siblings she had, her father favored her the most.
*She was married at the age of 11 and she died at the age of 22.
*Pocahontas was not a princess in the context of Powhatan culture but she was to the English Public.
*She became the symbol of Indian religious conversion.