Pocahontas
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1617-03-21
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Rebecca Rolfe
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She helped bring together Native Americans and European settlers.
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politics and government
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royalty
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pocahontas knew john smith
(John Smith)
pocahontas married john rolfe
(John Rolfe)
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john rolfe second wife was pocahontas
(John Rolfe)
john smith knew pocahontas
(John Smith)
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Pocahontas was the daughter of the powerful chief of then Algonquin Indians in the Tidewater region of Virginia, and one of his many wives.
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When the English arrived in the Chesapeake Bay area in May 1607, "Pocahontas" (a nickname apparently meaning "playful" or "mischievous one") was an intelligent, lively and charming young girl of ten or eleven who was extremely curious about the strange wh
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When, in late December 1607, the founder and leader of the colony, John Smith, was captured and held at Powhatan's York River capital at Werowocomoco, Smith was saved from execution (according to his own, highly romanticized account) on a sacrificial ston
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Marriage
(1617, 1614-04-05, John Rolfe)
Marriage
(1613, 1610, Kocoum)
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1595
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