West Routt Library District

A biography of the Powhatan Indian woman who befriended the English settlers at Jamestown, Virginia, and helped maintain peace between her tribe and the colonists.

Pocahontas was only eleven years old when, on her kneesm she begged her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare the life of the captured Englishman John Smith. According to trival custom, this act made her "brother", a kinship she never forgot. But relations between the Indians and the white settlers at the Jamestown colony were ever-changing. For ten more years, Pocahontas would be caught up in the tensions separating the two cultures. And before there...

"Describes the life and time of Pocahontas and the First Colonies"--

Relates the life of a brave Indian woman who rescues Captain Smith from harm and helps the English colonists in many other ways.

A biography of Pocahontas, the Powhatan Indian woman famous for rescuing John Smith, and who was herself kidnapped and taken to live at Jamestown, where she eventually married colonist John Rolfe.

Simple text and illustrations introduce the life of the Powhatan Indian who worked throughout her life to establish peace between her people and the English.

A simple biography of the seventeenth-century Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.

A brief biography that highlights some important events in the life of the woman who helped to bring about peace and friendship between English settlers in Virginia and the native Powhatan people.