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Pocahontas
Title: Pocahontas
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1552 | Pages: 6.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Pocahontas
Biography of Pocahontas
For more than two centuries since the death of the Indian princess Pocahontas, legends and stories of romance have been imbedded into our minds, but her dramatic life was more important to the creation of a segment of American history than legend.
Around the year of 1595, Pocahontas was born to chief Powhatan, the powerful chief of a federation of Algonquian Indian tribes who lived in the tidewater region of Virginia. She was …showed first 75 words of 1552 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1552 total…of the “good Indian” who saved the life of a white man. She was much more than that. She was a representative for native Americans and a vital link between them and the Englishmen. She provided food for Jamestown that, perhaps, without her, might never have survived. Her marriage to John Rolfe brought peace between her fellow tribesmen and her fellow Christians. She led a magnificent life and will always have her place in history.
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