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Pocahontas ( US: / ˌpoʊkəˈhɒntəs /, UK: / ˌpɒk -/; 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. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief [ 2 ...
Pocahontas is the titular character of Walt Disney Animation Studios ' 1995 film Pocahontas, and the seventh addition to the Disney Princess franchise. The character is loosely based on the actual historical figure Pocahontas (1596-1617), making her the first Disney Princess to be based on a real person. As the daughter of a Native American ...
Budget. $55 million [ 3] Box office. $346.1 million [ 1] Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical historical drama film loosely based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English colonial settlers from the Virginia Company. The film romanticizes Pocahontas's encounter with John Smith and her legendary saving of his ...
Pocahontas and Edward Norton. Shutterstock(2) Finding out his family history. Edward Norton appeared on the season 9 premiere of Finding Your Roots, where he learned that historical figure ...
Argall is a retelling of the founding of the Jamestown Colony and the legend of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. The novel is primarily written in flowery Elizabethan language, which was met with mixed critical reception; The New York Times found the language "endlessly distracting and often silly", [2] whereas the San Francisco Chronicle ...
Stories of witches burned at the stake in Salem, Massachusetts, are eerie and influential but not true. In 1692, a doctor diagnosed a group of young girls as victims of witchcraft after they began ...
John Rolfe ( c. 1585 – March 1622) was an English explorer, farmer and merchant. He is best known for being the husband of Pocahontas and the first settler in the colony of Virginia to successfully cultivate a tobacco crop for export. He played a crucial role in the Virginia Colony's early economy by introducing a sweeter strain of tobacco ...
Lancashire, England. Died. c. 1609. Virginia Colony. Occupation. Adventurer. John Ratcliffe (born John Sicklemore; 1549 – December 1609) was an early Jamestown colonist, governor, and sea captain. Ratcliffe became the second president of the colony of Jamestown. He was slain by the Pamunkey Native Americans in the winter 1609-1610.