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Pocahontas
The Disney version of her story is extremely deceptive source of information that children take for the truth. Her story was almost exact opposite of the wonderful life they show.

Pocahontas born 1595 was an indigenous woman of the Powhatan tribe in what we know call Virginia. She was known as Matoaka and Amonute among many other secret names only a select few of her people knew. The name that most of us know her by is Pocahontas which means "naughty or spoiled child". She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of Virginia.She was around 9-11 years old when the Europeans arrived during the Jamestown settlement and European invasion of America. She is well known for her heroic action of saving John Smiths life from execution by her father. Although it is known that he was never in danger and was treated with hospitality and care which was a tradition of most if not all Native Americans (John Smith was known for twisting his story). She was to marry a fellow member of her tribe named Kocoum when she came of appropriate age for marriage. She was kidnapped by the Europeans and held captive. She was taken to England and mistreated aboard the ship. When they arrived she was put in prison for a year. A man by the name of John Rolfe took "special interests" in her. He lied and told her that if she didn't resist marriage that he would take back to her home which she never saw again. She married him at the age of 16 or so. She was used as advertisement for his tobacco business and was depicted as the "civilized savage" although the Europeans were obviously the savages for the bloodshed. At the age of 20 she had a child, Thomas Rolfe. She died a year later at the age extremely young age of 21-22 in March 1617 which was unusual for Indigenous people who lived well into there hundreds before the diseases of Europe. The story of her death is unknown but some say she was murdered on a ship and thrown overboard while others say she became sick with the unhealthy life of the Europeans and caught small pox or was poisoned and buried in Gravesend but her burial site was destroyed in construction.