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2007-03-23 06:36:35 · 20 answers · asked by shanekeavy 5 in Society & Culture Mythology & Folklore

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Pocahontas was most likely born in Werawocomoco (what is now Wicomico, Gloucester County, Virginia) on the north side of the Pamaunkee (York) River, around the year 1595. Her true name was Matoaka, but that name was only used within her tribe. Native Americans believed harm would come to a person if outsiders learned of their tribal name. Pocahontas was one of many daughters of a powerful chief named Powhatan, who ruled more than 25 tribes.

Pocahontas first became acquainted with the English colonists who settled in the Chesapeake Bay area in 1607. Along with her tribe, Pocahontas watched the colonists build a fort and search for food. The next year, Powhatan's brother Opechancanough captured colonist John Smith. Smith was brought to Powhatan, who decided he must die. According to an account written later by Smith, Pocahontas saved Smith's life by throwing herself down and cradling his head before he was clubbed to death.

2007-03-23 06:41:37 · answer #1 · answered by wierd and wounderful world of me 5 · 1 0

if all you know is based on the disney movies and books, then that is a poor telling of history.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/pocahonta
for some real fact check out above link
Born: 1596 (exact date uncertain)
Died: March (exact date uncertain) 1617

Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, an important chief of the Algonquian Indians (the Powhatans) who lived in the Virginia region. Her real name was "Matoaka." "Pocahontas" was a nickname meaning "playful" or "mischievous one." Pocahontas is most famous for reportedly saving the life of English Captain John Smith. Throughout her short life (she died at the age of 22), however, she was important in other ways as well. Pocahontas tried to promote peace between the Powhatans and the English colonists. She even converted to Christianity and married John Rolfe, a Jamestown colonist, a union which helped bring the two groups together. Her untimely death in England hurt the chance for continued peace in Virginia between the Algonquians and the colonists.

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2007-03-23 12:37:18 · answer #2 · answered by drakelungx 3 · 0 0

No Pocahontas was real. She died of smallpox in England.

Her life has become a legend and in the retelling she became larger than life and is credited in doing things she did not do but pocahontas was a real person.

2007-03-24 00:47:44 · answer #3 · answered by Rev. Two Bears 6 · 0 0

The way Pocahontas was portrayed in the disney movie was not accurate at all she didn't marry john smith but married john rolfe and when she was sent to england to live with her husband all of her native American culture was taken away from her you should try this website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas

2007-03-23 06:41:34 · answer #4 · answered by ALt 3 · 1 0

No the story of Pocahontas is a true story. There may be some exaggerations in the story today with some movies and cartoons, but the story is true.

2007-03-23 06:39:35 · answer #5 · answered by Rae-Rae 2 · 1 0

No, she was a real person! The story is completely true (Disney version is pretty acurate!) The only misconception
some people have is that she married John Smith the Captain who's life she saved. They were inlove but, couldn't make it work. She married Captian John Stowe who came to her land a few years later. She eventually moved home with him and took up life as a lady of his society. Please don't misinterperate what Iam saying she was a princess among her people! I just mean She took on the life style of a woman of his home land.

2007-03-23 06:45:05 · answer #6 · answered by sistermarybella 4 · 1 0

Nope she was real
She went back to live in England was was well thought of and accepted into high society - she saved John Smith life but married a different Englishman who died after they were together for a few years.

2007-03-23 06:40:12 · answer #7 · answered by SirSmartAzz 2 · 1 0

No she is a real historical figure. The Smithsonian magazine this month has an article about the archaeological dig of her Fathers village where she and John Smith met.

2007-03-23 06:45:12 · answer #8 · answered by fnsurf 4 · 1 1

Pocahontas was a real person.

I'm sure some of her story has been sensationalized.

2007-03-23 06:39:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

she is real some of the stories about her could be myth

2007-03-23 06:39:32 · answer #10 · answered by furmanator1957 4 · 2 0

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