How much do you know about Pocahontas?

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How much do you know about Pocahontas?​

The Full Story of Pocahontas Is Rarely Told. Here’s What We’re Missing A portrait of Pocahontas, 1616. W e all think we know Pocahontas, but her real story is very different from the popular image. Pocahontas was an extremely talented and lively 10-year-old girl when Jamestown was founded in 1607.

Why did Pocahontas go to Powhatan?​

Pocahontas was there to help Thomas adjust to his new life. But soon the Englishmen’s constant demands for food became too much. Virginia was deep in the worst drought in 770 years, and food was scarce. At the beginning of 1609, Smith led a party to visit Powhatan, and things seemed to be going well.
How old was Pocahontas at Jamestown?
Pocahontas was an extremely talented and lively 10-year-old girl when Jamestown was founded in 1607. She was the daughter of the Great Powhatan, who ruled over numerous client tribes in the Chesapeake, the region the Powhatans called Tsenacomaca, and he selected her for a special role because of her intelligence and personality.
How did Chief Powhatan react to the death of his daughter?
Chief Powhatan was devastated upon learning of his daughter’s death. He died about a year later and relations between the Powhatan and Virginia colonists declined rapidly. Much of Pocahontas’ life has been romanticized and sensationalized in movies and books.

How did Pocahontas become a Christian?​

A young puritan minister named Alexander Whitaker instructed her about Christianity, and a man named John Rolfe began to fall in love with her. Sometime in the spring of 1614 Pocahontas “renounced publicly her country Idolatry, openly confessed her Christian faith, [and] was, as she desired, baptized.”

Who wrote Pocahontas and the English boys?​

Karen Ordahl Kupperman is the author of Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia, available now from NYU Press. Get our History Newsletter.