Pocahontas+(Rebeca+Rolfe)true+or+legend?


 *  POCAHONTAS ( REBECCA ROLFE) TRUE OR LEGEND?   **


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There are many versions about this story. But, is the story true about the Indian princess, and the English settler at Jamestown- Virginia? The historians say that this is the true story but is different from the story showed by Walt Disney. Virginia was the first permanent colony that the English settlers established in America. They called it Virginia in honor of Elizabeth I. She was also known as “The Queen Virgin”. The first settlers lived in a colony known as Jamestown. The settlers started a relationship with the natives Americans that lived on that land. The tribe “Pamunkey”. This tribe had control of approximately thirty tribes or more. They were about nine thousand Native Americans. The pamunkey tribe taught the settlers how to cultivate and use the resources from the land. But the relationship between the settlers and the Native Americans was not always the same. One day, an English captain by the name of John Smith and some of his men were captured by the Native Americans. The chief of the pamunkey tribe killed all John Smith’s men. The only survivor was John Smith, because the twelve year old Pocahontas, daughter of the chief saved his life. From that moment on, began a friendship between the captain and Pocahontas. She helped him, and the others settlers to begin a relationship with the people from her tribe. John Smith went back to London, and Pocahontas stayed in America. The settlers told her that Smith had died. Pocahontas grew and was married with a Native Americans who later died in a battle. She was latter kidnapped by the settlers and was converted to the Christianity. She then changed her name to Rebecca. In 1614 she met a tobacco planter by the name of John Rolfe and was married with him that year. Rebecca and John had a son named Thomas. She, her family and other Native Americans traveled to England in 1616 where they had a meeting with the king of England. She was treated like a princess. Unfortunaly, in 1617 at the age of 22, Pocahontas died before returning to America. She will always be known as the first native American that accepted Jesus Christ.





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By Rina Pandolf, Elsa, Sabreena.