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 * "The Real Pocahontas Story"**



When people think of the story of Pocahontas, they think of the Disney movie. A typical love story with trials and tribulations where everything works out and everybody has a happy ending. That's not the case. Rebecca Rolfe, also know as Pocahontas was indeed a chiefs daughter she was witty, outgoing, and very independent. Her tribe was very involved with the colonists, esp. John Smith.

__**So What is the Real Story of Pocahontas?**__
[|The Real Story through Song!] (This video tells the whole story though an illustrated song! Its pretty cool you guys!)

Maybe you weren't able to follow the story though the song that well, the link below is to an interactive website that shows the story scene by scene and has a glossary for some words and also has a game, but this is a more elemantary site. [|Easy to follow version of story! and Game!]

** __How does this affect people tooday?__ **
There's more to the Pocahontas story. Native Americans are still mad over how Disney wrongly told Pocahontas's story. Here is a link for a very short article about this. [|Todays affects of the Disney and real stories!]

__**How can we sum up Pocahontas's story?**__
[|A short bio of Pocahontas] Summary: Pocahontas's real name was "Matoaka" and Pocahontas ment "the playful one." She developed a friendship with the settler John Smith and when tribe was ordered to kill him she protected him. This act of kindness might have saved Jamestown from falling apart. After John Smith went back to England, Pocahontas was kidnapped by a captian of Jamestown. Here she was taught the Christian religion, baptized, and had her name changed to Rebecca.Then John Rofle married her, therefore her name became Rebecca Rofle. In 1616 she was invited to visit England, before her return to America she became very sick, she died and was buried in Gavesend Church. Pocahontas only had one child, Thomas Rolfe.