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Question: Everything about Pocahontas!?
Can someone tell me the true story of Pocahontas!?
Include some websites please!.
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True story is that she was a little girl when she met John Smith, not a big-breasted woman as Disney would have you believe!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

She was a Native American woman married to John Rolfe, an Englishman and who was famous during the last year of her life!. Pocahontas was a childhood nickname, meaning "little wanton"!. She was the daughter of the chief leader of the Native American Confederation, now known as the Powhatan!.

She saved a leading colonist, John Smith's life when he was about to be killed by a group of Powhatan hunters (he was one of the colonists who tried to colonise Virginia) by throwing her body across his, risking her own life!.

She saved him a second time when she came to warn him and his men about her father's plan to kill them when they put down their weapons to eat the food which was brought by her father's men!.

Interestingly, there has been no historical records of Pocahontas and John Smith being lovers, this highly romanticised version was invented by Walk Disney Pictures!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Actually, no record exists of a girl named "Pocahontas" because, see, Smith (or was it Rolfe again!? wasn't really paying attention to the other posters!.!.!.!.) was a known boaster, and for telling tall tales!. That much I am sure of; in his native England he was known as a braggart and a liar, so, the whole account of Pocahontas is questionable!. How he landed such a prominent position in colonial America, or, rather pre-colonial America, is still a mystery, although given his reputation, they probably gave him the crap job to get rid of him!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I heard John was a jerk to herWww@QuestionHome@Com

I know she died of smallpoxWww@QuestionHome@Com