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Pocahontas (US: / ˌ p oʊ k ə ˈ h ɒ n t ə s /, UK: / ˌ p ɒ k-/; born Amonute, [1] also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.
Rolfe's birth was recorded as the first time a child was born to a Native American woman and a European man in the history of Virginia. [4] In 1616 John Rolfe and Pocahontas accompanied Governor Sir Thomas Dale on a trip to England to promote the Colony of Virginia , they sailed aboard the Treasurer captained by Samuel Argall , arriving at ...
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 ...
Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples make up a big part of the U.S. population. Today, there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes, plus an estimated 400 more that are ...
To celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary, Bedard reveals things you probably never knew about 'Pocahontas', from a missing mother to a meeting that has yet to happen.
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His wife Carole decided that Pocahontas would have a dream that something was about to happen (due to dreams being a large part of Native American culture). As Pocahontas was a reinterpretation of the Romeo and Juliet story, and the first song sung by Tony in the Romeo and Juliet based musical West Side Story is "Something's Coming", Schwartz ...
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.