Pocahontas

• Pocahontas (c. 1595 – March 21 1617) was a Native American woman She was a daughter of Wahunsunacock. Her formal names were Matoaka (or Matoika) and Amonute, Pocahontas was a nickname referring to her playful nature.

John Smith

• John Smith, was born in England on January 9 1580

• He was the Captain of the first settlers in Jamestown, Virginia.

• John Smith was captured by the local tribes who condemned him to death. He was saved by Pocahontas.

Chief powhatan• Chief Powhatan

Wahunsunacock, was the leader of the Powhatan, a powerful tribe of Native Americans speaking an Algonquian language, who lived where is now Tidewater, Virginia at the time of the first English-Native encounters. He was Pocahontas’s father.

John Rolfe

• John Rolfe 1585-1622 was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas.

Pocahontas in England

• Two years later Rolfe took Pocahontas and their son Thomas to England. The arrival of Pocahontas in London was well publicized. She was presented to King James I, the royal family, and the rest of the best of London society.

Pocahontas’s death

• In March 1617, while preparing to return to her native land, Pocahontas became ill.The nature of her illness is unknown. Yet, Pocahontas had suffered from the pollution in London, she may have died of pneumonia or tuberculosis.

• She died at Gravesend, England where she was buried.