Pocahontas




 * See Grade 5.7 for more on relationships between Europeans and native people in colonial Virginia**


 * For background, see**
 * ** Pocahontas from the Virtual Jamestown website. **
 * ** Pocahontas from America's Story, Library of Congress **

[|Pocahontas: Comparing the Disney Image with Historical Evidence], Social Studies and the Young Learner, 18(4), 2006.

See also "The Pocahontas Myth" by Chief Roy Crazy Horse, written as a response to a Disney Movie about Pocahontas and John Smith.

**Primary Sources**

John Smith also wrote to Queen Anne of Great Britain in 1616 advocating on behalf of Pocahontas and that testimony can be viewed here.

[|Jamestown Primary Sources]from the Library of Congress

See also, Pocahontas Marries John Rolfe, 1613 from the Library of Congress.



Multimedia Resources
[|The Myth of Pocahontas] from PBS Learning Media

[|The True Story of Pocahontas as NOT Told by Disney]

[|Pocahontas Movie] (1995)





**Lesson Plans**
See this site, for lesson plans about Pocahontas and other areas of American history.

[|Pocahontas: Myth and Misrepresentation]