Explores the life of seventeenth-century Powhatan princess Pocahontas, telling Captain John Smith's legendary story about her bravery and discussing the Jamestown colony, struggles between settlers and Native Americans, and Pocahontas's years in England.
A biography of Pocahontas, the daughter of a Native American chief, discussing her attempts to help English settlers get along with her people, her capture by the English, her marriage to John Rolfe, and her death in England.
Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.
Explores the history of Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America, established in 1607, looking at what researchers and archaeologists have learned since 1994 through the Jamestown Rediscovery project.
This book presents an overview of the life of Pocahontas, a Native American woman of the Powhatan tribe, who made friends with the first English colonists of Jamestown, Virginia in the early 1600s.
A biography of the Powhatan Indian woman who befriended the English settlers at Jamestown, Virginia, and helped maintain peace between her tribe and the colonists.