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Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown

Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown

Rountree, Helen C.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralNative American HistoryColonial Period (1600-1775)

ISBN10: 0813925967
ISBN13: 9780813925967
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Jul 5 2006
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Pocahontas may be the most famous Native American who ever lived, but during the settlement of Jamestown, and for two centuries afterward, the great chiefs Powhatan and Opechancanough were the subjects of considerably more interest and historical documentation than the young woman. It was Opechancanough who captured the foreign captain Chawnzmit--John Smith. Smith gave Opechancanough a compass, described to him a spherical earth that revolved around the sun, and wondered if his captor was a cannibal. Opechancanough, who was no cannibal and knew the world was flat, presented Smith to his elder brother, the paramount chief Powhatan. The chief, who took the name of his tribe as his throne name (his personal name was Wahunsenacawh), negotiated with Smith over a lavish feast and opened the town to him, leading Smith to meet, among others, Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas. Thinking he had made an ally, the chief finally released Smith. Within a few decades, and against their will, his people would be subjects of the British Crown.

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