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Rebecca Rolfe

Pocohontas

Matoaka

Lady Rebecca Rolfe

Pocahontas was an Powhatan Indian.

Her father was Chief of many Indian tribes.

Pocahontas met the first Jamestown colonists.

She took food to the colonists when they were hungry.

She warned the colonist when her father was angry.

Pocahontas was known for her courage and kindness.

Pocahontas was baptised and name Rebecca

Rebecca married John Rolfe.

She had a son named Thomas.

Rebecca went to England.

She got sick and died on her way home.

 


Pocahontas projects by Anne Pemberton

The Life of Pocahontas (Flash Animation)

Pocahontas Biography

Visit Jamestown with Pocahontas (Personalized Story)

Pocahontas Timeline

Pocahontas Bibliography

Pocahontas Projects

Pocahontas Picture Quiz

Pocahontas Print Quiz

Pocahontas Color Page


Net Links on Pocahontas

Pocahontas Coloring Pages (from Disney Movie)

Disney Movie Trailer: Pocahontas

Wikipedia: Pocahontas

Rachel Sahlman: Biography of Pocahontas

Jamestown Rediscovery: Pocahontas Story - includes the adaptation of the oil portrait of Pocahontas.

Pocahontas Archives: a large digitized collection of information on the most famous Native American woman!

Americas Library: Pocahontas

University of Virginia: Virtual Jamestown - includes "Arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia"," Indian Woman and Young Girl", "Indian Woman and Baby of Pomeiooc", "John Smith Upon Capture", and "Indian Food".

University of Virginia: Pocahontas, Icon at the Crossroad of Race and Gender in America - includes "The Baptism of Pocahontas" and "Pocahontas Saving John Smith". "The Abduction of Pocahontas", "The Marriage of Pocahontas", "John Rolfe and Pocahontas,"and "The Death of Pocahontas,"

Colonial Williamsburg: The Portrait of Pocahontas - includes the historic portrait of "Pocahontas in London".

David Morenus: The Real Story of Pocahontas

Jamestown Settlement: In The Words of Pocahontas

The Sedgforth Portrait of Pocahontas and her son Thomas

Powhatan Nation: The Pocahontas Myth

Fayette, IN: John Smith's Letter to Queen Anne regarding Pocahontas

America's Library: Pocahontas

Gloucester County, VA: Pocahontas, American Indian Princess

Paula Geise: Native American Opinions on the Pocahontas Movie

St. Georges Church, Gravesend, England: Princess Pocahontas.

American Women: Pocahontas, A Native American Princess

Williamsburg Private Tours: Pocahontas (Pictures, documents, vocabulary)

Williamsburg Private Tours: Captain John Smith - extensive text documents

 


Books about Pocahonatas:

Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechacanough - Three Indian lives changed by Jamestown, by Helen Roundtree.

Pocahontas, and the Powhatan Dilemma, by Camilla Townsend.

Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony: The First Decade: 1607-1617, edited with Commentary by Edward Wright Haile.

1491: New Revelations of the America's Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann.


Page created August 4, 2001. Anne Pemberton. Updated Thu October 29, 2009 . AP.

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