Pocahontas
The book I read was Pocahontas, by Grace Steele Woodward. This book covers many different subjects in the life of Pocahontas. The book begins with a background of Pocahontas. She was not just an Indian girl but the daughter of a very powerful chief. Her father was Chief Powhatan who controlled a lot of the land around the Jamestown area and up to the Chesapeake Bay region. He kept a tight fist with all of his tribes that he had acquired during his conquests by placing family members in charge of the new land. Powhatan had the respect of all his people and his people knew not to try to over throw him or question his authority.The Powhatan Indian Tribe was made up of different combinations of Indian tribes some included the Cherokees, Iroquois, Monacans, Siouan, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and the Muskhogean. The Powhatan's dressed different between the sexes and classes of the tribe. Members of the royal household would wear many feather and deerskins on their bodies and usually painted themselves in bright colors. Men of lower standards wore just breechcloths which were usually made of rabbit skins or beaver skins. Pocahontas was born into the Powhatan tribes in either 1596 or 1597 historians aren't exactly sure
when she was born. Her place of birth was Werowocomoco, Chief Powhatan's principal residence until 1609. Powhatan had many wives and historians aren't sure of Pocahontas' real mother, her whereabouts and name is unknown. Pocahontas had two names given to her at birth. Pocahontas, the name given to her by her father, was translated by English to mean " Bright Stream between Two Hills" but in her own language it meant "Little Wanton". Her secret name only known by her tribesmen was Matoax meaning "Little Snow Feather" (Woodward 20). During The first days of Jamestown, Pocahontas started to watch and observed the new strangers in her land. She starts to see how they ran life and governed themselves. Pocahontas was still very young when the first settlers landed at Jamestown. Pocahontas became intrigued with an Englishmen named Captain John Smith. Smith was a young 26-year-old. Captain Newport arrested Smith on route to Jamestown for inciting mutiny among some of the crewmen on the ship Susan Constant. Smith was released after landing at Jamestown but Smith could not take the oath of allegiance to King James or sit with the council until June 10, when he was cleared of all charges (Woodward 55). John Smith, to Pocahontas, was the most approachable of all the English colonists. He too
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Approximate Word count = 870
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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