Pocahontas / Bruchac, Joseph

Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of 17th century Jamestown, Virginia.

Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of 17th century Jamestown, Virginia.

Pocahontas, the eleven-year-old daughter of the Powhatan chief Mamanatowic, acts with wisdom and compassion in an effort to bring about an understanding between her people and the colonists who have come to settle in Virginia in the seventeenth century. Told in the alternating voices of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith.