Pocahontas

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Pocahontas, or "Matoaka" (1596-1617) as was most likely her birth name was a young woman of Native American descent and daughter of a paramount chief in a region that is now known as encompassing the Tidewater region of Virginia. Her "fame" was gained through her experience as a prisoner captured by the English in 1613 and subsequent story of her putting her own head on the chopping block to save an Englishman named Captain John Smith. It is just as likely however that the story was invented by the good Captain himself to raise his reputation as a man of courage and morals. That seems more accurate. Either way there is plenty of evidence to dispute the standard storyline. The name Pocahontas was most likely a nickname given to her as a child, meaning playful child or precocious child or a name given as a deflection of her true name so that the English would not know her true name. Many stories have surrounded her life including that she had at least one child before her child with her husband John Rolfe.

In 1616 Pocahantas traveled to England where it is reported she was entertained with great pomp and circumstance as a great example of the tamed "New world savage" and the success of English settlements. Pocohantas died the following year at the approximate age of 21. Her exact gravesite is unknown. Her persona and the stories around her life have inspired expressions of her life in ballet, film, festivals, games, literature, music and visual art, an asteroid, dozens of towns, schools.