Summary: The True Story Of Pocahontas

Pocahontas’s true story is not the animated, musical, romantic-drama film produced by Walt Disney. The real story is raw, and it shows you that the English Colonist were not respectively close to being heroes. The True Story of Pocahontas was written by Dr. Linwood “Little Bear” Custalow and Angela L. Daniel “Silver Star”. Dr. Linwood, the oral historian of the Mattaponi tribe, and Angela L., his coauthor, decided to be the first to document Pocahontas and her people in this book. For nearly 400 years Pocahontas’s story only lived within the Mattaponi tribe out of fear of a violent retribution if it were to go public. The Powhatan did not have a written language, their history was passed generation to generation from the oral historians; these people were called quiakros, they dedicated their lives to learning, and became the living libraries of the Powhatan people. In the war of 1644 to 1645 the Powhatan society began to collapse, in the middle of the seventeenth century the quiakros of the Powhatan people elected to become hidden in the Mattaponi tribes. Pocahontas and her father, Wahunsenaca, had a relationship so strong that even the English Colonist recognized Pocahontas was the favorite child. Mother Pocahontas was the first wife of Wahunsenaca; they shared a marriage of love, not alliance. Wahunsenaca was
The Powhatan, who sought the good in everyone, sent food to Jamestown. The stories claim Pocahontas personally took food to Jamestown, but she was still only a child of 10, and Jamestown was not in walking distance. Although she has gone to Jamestown, she went under the protection of her father. Pocahontas was the Powhatan peace symbol, therefore her appearance in Jamestown was thought to be one of tranquility. She was a member of the Powhatan paramount chief family, meaning