COLEGIUL NATIONAL GHEORGHE MUNTEANU MURGOCI

COLEGIUL NATIONAL GHEORGHE MUNTEANU MURGOCI

LUCRARE PENTRU OBTINEREA ATESTATULUI

PROFESIONAL LA LIMBA ENGLEZA

PROFESOR COORDONATOR: LAURA CERNICA NISTROR

ELEV: SPITA IOANA
THE TRUE STORY OF
POCAHONTAS – NATIVE
AMERICANS THAN AND NOW
CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Chapter 1. The real story of Pocahontas
 Chapter 2. Native Americans in the United States
 Chapter 3.The relationship between Pocahontas and John Smith
 Chapter 4. Pocahontas' First Marriage: The Powhatan Side of the Story
 Chapter 5. The Kidnapping And Captivity Of Pocahontas
 Chapter 6.The True Story Behind Disney’s Pocahontas
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 Conclusions
 Bibliography

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 This paper is written with the intention of presenting the true story of the disney princess, Pocahontas. In the
first chapter I briefly summarized her life followed by the second chapter where we go back in time when
the Native Americans populated most of the USA
 In the next chapter I presented the true relationship between the protagonist and John Smith, not the love
relationship that the story shows us
 In the following two chapters, I explained the life of the girl after she ,,left” her native village, respectively
her first marriage
 The last chapter of my work shows that the creators of Disney took a tragic story and turned it into a love
one that does not even contain 10% of the truth
CHAPTER 1.

 Pocahontas 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
of a network of tributary tribes, encompassing the Tidewater region of what is today the U.S. state Virginia.
CHAPTER 2.

 Native Americans, also known as American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Americans, and other
terms, are the Indigenous peoples of the mainland United States. There are 574 federally recognized tribes
living within the U.S., about half of which are associated with Indian reservations. As defined by the United
States Census, "Native Americans" are Indigenous tribes that are originally from the contiguous United
States, along with Alaska Natives.
CHAPTER 3.

 Nonetheless, Pocahontas developed a friendship with him and other settlers. She delivered messages from
her father and accompanied Indian men delivering gifts of food to the starving colonists. However, the peace
ended when colonists demanded more food, and Powhatan—facing shortages and drought in 1608 and 1609
—declined. Colonists burned Indian villages and threatened violence, and from then on, Pocahontas ceased
visiting Jamestown.
CHAPTER 4.

 Prior to her celebrated marriage with Rolfe, Pocahontas and her husband Kocoum, the younger brother of
Chief Japazaw of the Potowomac (Potomac) tribe, initially lived in the Werowocomoco Village. They later
moved to Kocoum’s home village, the Potowomac, along the Potomac river. Pocahontas gave birth to her
first son there.
CHAPTER 5.

 The major event of Pocahontas’s life was not saving John Smith. Instead, it was her kidnapping — which
was done by Smith’s fellow colonists.
 The once-friendly relationship between the English and the Powhatan had begun to sour when the English
demanded more supplies from the Powhatan, even during droughts that left the nation vulnerable.
CHAPTER 6.

 Contrary to Disney’s portrayal of this well-known ‘family film,’ the true story of Pocahontas is not one of a
romance, but a tragedy. Pocahontas was one of the first real-life Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women