He paraded John Smith to each of the Powhatan villages, and finally ended up at the home of Chief Wahunsenaca. According to John Smith, he was captured by a man named Opechancanough. In John Smith’s account of events, Pocahontas saved his life. This illustration shows Pocahontas saving John Smith’s life. Or, she may have still been alive, and just chose not to visit the daughter that she gave away. However, since Pocahontas’ mother is never described, many historians believe that she may have died in childbirth.
After doing her duty, she was allowed to marry another man, have a relationship, and raise more children without being expected to go back to the Chief Powhatan. Once the child was weaned, they were brought back to the Chief Powhatan to live together with their half-siblings. After giving birth, she was expected to breastfeed the baby. When one wife became pregnant, she would go back to live in one of the 30 tribes where she came from and give birth to the chief’s child. According to custom, The Chief Powhatan would sleep with many wives.
There is no written record of Pocahontas’ mother, except to say that they both had the same energetic, playful personality and nickname. She did cartwheels and ran through the forest on a daily basis.Ĭhildren would run around naked (left) and were cared for by their mothers in the village (right). As the name suggests, she was very energetic, cheerful, and playful. The name Pocahontas is actually a Powhatan nickname that means “playful one”, and this is what both she and her mother were called in their tribe. In Native American culture, it is common to give someone a new name once they get older once they learn more about their personality. There was a total of 25,000 people, who had 30 lower-level chiefs under Pocahontas’ father.Įven though her birth name was Amonute, the name she was given later in life was “Matoaka,” which means “the flower between two streams”. He was the overseer of the other chiefs Powhatan tribe. In 1596, a young girl named Amonute was born to a mother who was called Pocahontas and her father, Wahunsenaca, who was Chief Powhatan. Pocahontas was just a nickname at first until she chose to made it her official name at her coming-of-age ceremony. The true story of the Powhatan princess is actually much darker and far more tragic than what they showed in the kid’s movie, and not enough people know the entire truth about what happened to her. Many people think they know the story of Pocahontas from watching the Disney animated movie.
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