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Pocahontas
Matoaka
BirthplaceWerowocomoco, Virginia
Known for Association with Jamestown colony, saving the life of John Smith, and as a Powhatan convert to Christianity

Pocahontas

original name Matoaka; married name Rebecca Rolfe. ?1595--1617, American Indian, who allegedly saved the colonist Captain John Smith from being killed
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Pocahontas

natural beauty embodied in an Indian maiden. [Am. Hist.: EB, VIII: 57]
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In 1995, Pocahontas joined the pantheon of modern Disney princesses, an animated blockbuster that has played out ever since on DVDs and in academic papers alike.
There are different elements at play in all of them too: the sexuality of the woman who stands up to her father in the song, protecting her lover because "he gives me fever"; Disney of course wished to tell a child-friendly story, director Mike Gabriel telling The Columbian that "the story of John Rolfe and Pocahontas was too complicated and violent for a youthful audience" ("So Who?").
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In 1964, my wife and I and our family moved home from Omaha to Pocahontas to farm with my father and brother.
Unfortunately, my energies were soon filled with building sailboats in Virginia where I lived beside the Chesapeake Bay, so Pocahontas County took her place on the back burner.
Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe; European perceptions and appropriations of Native American cultures from Pocahontas to the present.
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The 2006/07 season also saw the addition of two new works to what one might characterize as the Indian canon, with Opera Omaha mounting Anthony Davis's Wakonda's Dream, and Virginia Opera, in association with the Virginia Arts Festival, introducing a chamber opera by Linda Tutas Haugen titled Pocahontas.
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