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Pocahontas

Powhatan woman
Also known as: Amonute, Matoaka, Rebecca
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Pocahontas (born c. 1596, near present-day Jamestown, Virginia, U.S.ā€”died March 1617, Gravesend, Kent, England) was a Powhatan woman who fostered peace between English colonists and Native Americans by befriending the settlers at the Jamestown Colony in Virginia and eventually marrying one of them. Among her several native names, the one best known to the English was Pocahontas (translated at the time as ā€œlittle wantonā€ or ā€œmischievous oneā€). She was a daughter of Powhatan (as he...

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