Schoolchildren still learn the story of 11-year-old Pocahontas intervening with her father, Chief Powhatan, to save John Smith from execution near Jamestown in 1607. Such dramatic events inspire movies, excite our imagination, animate history - and confuse it.Shi, David...
In this story, her intervention saved his life and convinced Chief Powhatan to return John Smith to Jamestown. Original accounts of the event do not refer to Pocahontas. Instead they describe a feast served by the tribes and a discussion with Indian leaders curious about the English settlers. ...
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This church is also where Pocahontas married John Rolfe. The identification of the men – The Rev. Robert Hunt, Captain Gabriel Archer, Sir Ferdinando Wainman, and Captain William West – reveals new information about the leaders of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent and successful English ...
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What Eisner is not telling us is that Captain John Smith never married Pocahontas as she was already married with a 3 year old son. It was John Rolfe who had married “little wanton.” And the Jew Eisner would never scruple to tell his audience of children that it was Pocahontas who ...
Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as real, never knowing I could feel. —Pocahontas 144 I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world...
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I'm still trying to figure out why historical accuracy is such a big deal in this case. I don't recall quite so much debate over Pocahontas. True there was some ambiguous historical mysteries that the writers could take advantage of, such as it being unknown whether or not Smith and Poca...