|
Wednesday, 03 November 2004 |
|
On April 5th, 1614, Pocahontas married English settler John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia. The story of this young Native American woman has been made famous by the Disney studios, but what was her true story?
Related Websites
Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself:
http://www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html
A biography of Pocahontas
http://www.virtualjamestown.org/maps1.html
Maps of Jamestown and Virginia in Pocahontas’s time
http://www.fae.plym.ac.uk/neworld/1616.htm
The story of Pocahontas’s life, in tapestry pictures
http://www.stgeorgesgravesend.org.uk/Pages/pocstory.htm
Pocahontas’s final resting place - in England, surprisingly |
|
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 March 2007 )
|