![]() ![]() ![]() Betty Louise Bell gives a synopsis of what little is known about Pocahontas, “her powerful father’s favored child, a tribal ambassador to the Jamestown settlement, the mediator between British colonists and indigenous peoples, the first Native woman to convert to Christianity, the third Virginian Native woman to marry a colonist, the mother of a new mixed blood race, and the first Native American to be honored by the Court of King James.” Pocahontas left no testimony of her own. The most famous incident in the myth of Pocahontas-her rescue of the soldier-of-fortune John Smith from certain death-is questionable.Įver since, Pocahontas has been romanticized and mythologized in more advertisements, as well as books, plays, poems, movies, cartoons, and dolls.
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