Pocahontas

Pocahontas (c.1595 – March 21, 1617) is a Virginia Indian chief's daughter notable for having assisted colonial settlers at Jamestown.

She converts to Christianity and marries the English settler John Rolfe.

After they travel to London, she becomes famous in the last year of her life.

She is a daughter of Wahunsunacawh, better known as Chief or Emperor Powhatan (to indicate his primacy), who heads a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tidewater region of Virginia (called Tenakomakah by the Powhatan).

These tribes make up what is known as the Powhatan Chiefdom and speak a language of the Algonquian family.

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