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| Pocahantas's real name was Matoaka.Matoaka means little wanton which is short for child whom you can never find because she's always out playing somewhere. |
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John Rolfe was her first husband, although while she was in england an enemy of her's claimed she was living in sin. They said she was married to an indian chief named Kokoum. |
| The story of Pocahontas has no author but has been passed down from generation to generation by word of ,mouth. | Pocahontas enjoyed the company of the white men very much. It is said that she was a frequent visitor to Jamestown. | John Rolfe only decided to marry a "heathen indian" after Pocahontas was converted to Christianity. |
| Pocahontas was an Algonquian Indian. | John Smith was badly hurt by a gunpowder explosion. A few days later when Pocahontas returned to the fort she was lied to and told that her friend was dead. | Her christian name given to her after baptism was Rebecca. |
| Pocahontas traveled back to London along with her son Thomas and husband John Rolfe. | A man named Samuel Argall once devised a plan to kidnap Pocahontas and hold her for ransom. The plan was sucessful. | Pocahontas and John Rolfe were married on April 5, 1614 |
| While in London the arrival of Pocahontas was well publicized. She was presented to King James and his royal court. | Pocahontas met the man she would later marry,John Rolfe, while held prisoner in the Jamestown settlement. | A general peace and a spirit of goodwill between the white men and the indians resulted from this marriage. |
| Pocahontas died from either pneumonia or tuberculosis while on her return voyage home from England. | Pocahontas served as a vital link between the Native Americans and the English. | John Rolfe and Pocahontas had a son named Thomas. |
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