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However, little is known about Pocahontas's mother, and it has been theorized that she died in childbirth. [10] The Mattaponi Reservation people are descendants of the Powhatans, and their oral tradition claims that Pocahontas's mother was the first wife of Powhatan and that Pocahontas was named after her. [11]
The Sedgeford Hall Portrait, once believed to represent Pocahontas (also known as Matoaka) and her son, has been re-identified as being Pe-o-ka (wife of Osceola) and their son. Rolfe's daughter, Jane Rolfe, married Robert Bolling of Prince George County , Virginia ; the couple's son, John Bolling , was born on January 27, 1676.
Rolfe married Pocahontas, daughter of the local Native American leader Powhatan, on 5 April 1614. [7] Earlier that same year, Pocahontas chose to convert to Christianity; she was baptized by Alexander Whitaker and chose "Rebecca" as her new baptismal name. [8] Richard Buck officiated their wedding. Their son, Thomas Rolfe, was born in January ...
Irene Bedard (born July 22, 1967) is an Alaska Native actress, who has played mostly Native American lead roles in a variety of films. She is perhaps best known for the role of Suzy Song in the 1998 film Smoke Signals, [2] an adaptation of a Sherman Alexie collection of short stories, as well as for providing the speaking voice for the titular character in the 1995 animated film Pocahontas.
Melissa Lucio, a mother of 14 living in Brownsville, Texas, was arrested and charged in 2007 for the murder of her two-year-old daughter Mariah Alvarez who had turned purple and unresponsive at home.
The Supreme Court in 2017 ruled for a Black death row inmate who was sentenced after an expert witness testified he was statistically more likely to act violently in the future because of his race.
Jane Rolfe (October 10, 1650 – January 27, 1676) was the granddaughter of Pocahontas and English colonist John Rolfe (credited with introducing a strain of tobacco for export by the struggling Virginia Colony). Her husband was Colonel Robert Bolling, who lived from 1646 to 1709. Robert and Jane had one son, John Bolling (1676–1729).
A death row inmate convicted of killing her toddler daughter is “actually innocent” of murder and should be freed from custody, the prisoner's trial judge said in documents unearthed on Thursday.