Question

1. Why do you think the story of Pocahontas and John Smith became a legend?

2. Why is Pocahontas considered an important historical figure?

Answer 1

1. The romanticization of the native women who essentially "understands" the white colonizing men of her area and aids him in doing so, slightly encouraging it in many instances of similar media. Another contributing factor is the general thought native women are exotic, enticing, and attractive partners, causing many stories to come about of indigenous women in these circumstances.

2. She was seen as key to mending the bridges of native peoples and Europeans during early colonization, essentially allowing for Jamestown to survive in its early years.

Answer 2

She was instrumental to maintaining relations between her father and the Jamestown colonists and is believed to be the first Powhatan Indian to convert to Christianity. She is remembered as a courageous, strong woman who left an indelible impression on colonial America

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