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Pocahontas
by this gesture, that they welcomed her into their \
Question: Was Chief Powhatan right to keep on
houses. "It was wonderful," Pocahontas said, "to see so
fighting Should he have made peace in order to
manv new thinas. Thev let me 11 ............................ on
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their clothes and I manaqed - to 12 ............................ UP !
a few words of their strange language called English."
Soon after Pocahontas had made her first contact with
the settlers, the Algonquians captured a colonist called
John Smith. While they were deciding whether he
should be killed, Pocahontas stood in front of Smith
and put her head on his shoulder. She was saying that
the lndians should spare his life, even though he was
their enemy. Touched by her actions, they agreed to set
him free, and Pocahontas now decided she should act
as a kind of bridge between the two communities,
even though it would put her in real danger.
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Questions: What kind of arguments do you
imagine Pocahontas used to try and bring the two
communities together What do you think she said
to her father, Chief Powhatan What do you think
she said to the settlers
In 1608, there was more fighting, and the colonists
held several Native Americans prisoner in Jamestown.
When Pocahontas heard about this, she
13 ............................ up a meeting between her
father and the settlers and encouraged the two sides
to make peace. After hours of discussion the prisoners
were set free.
The colonists 15 ............................ Pocahontas off from
her family and held her prisoner. In 1614, when she
was 19, she converted to Christianity and married one
of the settlers, a man called John Rolfe.
She took a new name, Rebecca, and because of her
marriage, she was now free to see her father and
family again. Somehow, finally, she managed to get
the two sides to stop fighting.
Soon after, Pocahontas gave birth to a son, Thomas. In
1616, her husband decided to return to England and he
persuaded her to go with him.
Her visit to England caused a sensation. None of the
English people she met had ever 16 ............................
across a Native American before and they were
fascinated by her. When she met King James, for
example, he called her a "woman of wondrous beauty".
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Questions: How do you think the marriage
between the daughter of Chief Powhatan and one
oY the settlers changed the relationship between
the lndians and the colonists What do you think
Pocahontas 17 ............................ of England
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But the peace didn't last long and a year later, in 1609,
a full-scale war 14 ............................ out. The war would
last for five years. There was nothing Pocahontas could
do and she lost contact with many of her settler
friends. And then, in 1613, things went from bad to
worse.
Pocahontas was kidnapped by the colonists. Chief
Powhatan was told that the only way he could get his
daughter back was to end the war but he refused to
give in to this blackmail and the fighting continued.
In March 1617, a few months after she arrived in
England, Pocahontas fell ill. She decided to go back to
America and boarded a ship bound for Virginia but
before the boat had reached the open sea, a doctor
told her she was too sick to travel. She got off the boat
and died a few days later, in a village 30 kilometres
from London. She was just 22.
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Question: What can we learn from the life of
Pocahontas
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