Real story of pocahontas9/24/2023 ![]() The English claim to North America was split between two companies. After the death of Elizabeth I, England’s struggles with Spain and Scotland ceased, thus releasing capital and manpower for trade and to support conversion to the Christian faith. Powhatan’s rule was threatened by the arrival of the Spanish, French and English mariners, who were exploring for a north-west passage to the (East) Indies. Her father, called Powhatan, named her Meto-aka and later Pocahontas, meaning ‘playful little girl’. Pocahontas was born about 1595–1596, a daughter of the Chief over some forty Algonquian communities spread about the shores of the rivers now called the James and the York, which flow into Chesapeake Bay.
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