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Pocahontas ( US: / ˌpoʊkəˈhɒntəs /, UK: / ˌpɒk -/; born Amonute, [1] also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief [2] of ...
Thomas Rolfe was born in the English colony of Virginia to John Rolfe and his wife, Pocahontas, in January 1615. [1] It is believed he was born at the Rolfe family plantation, Varina, in what was then the corporation of James Cittie. Rolfe's birth was recorded as the first time a child was born to a Native American woman and a European man in ...
John Rolfe ( c. 1585 – March 1622) was an English explorer, farmer and merchant. He is best known for being the husband of Pocahontas and the first settler in the colony of Virginia to successfully cultivate a tobacco crop for export. He played a crucial role in the Virginia Colony's early economy by introducing a sweeter strain of tobacco ...
Pocahontas is the titular character of Walt Disney Animation Studios ' 1995 film Pocahontas, and the seventh addition to the Disney Princess franchise. The character is loosely based on the actual historical figure Pocahontas (1596-1617), making her the first Disney Princess to be based on a real person. As the daughter of a Native American ...
Yule F. Kilcher (great-grandfather) Q'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher ( / ˌkɒriˈæŋkə ˈkɪltʃər /; [1] born February 11, 1990) is an American actress. Her best known film roles are Pocahontas in Terrence Malick 's 2005 film The New World, and Kaʻiulani in Princess Kaiulani (2009). In 2020, she starred in a recurring role on the Paramount ...
Edward Norton appeared on the season 9 premiere of Finding Your Roots , where he learned that historical figure Pocahontas is actually his 12th great-grandmother. Read article. “I understand ...
Budget. $55 million [3] Box office. $346.1 million [1] Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical historical drama film based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English colonial settlers from the Virginia Company. The film romanticizes Pocahontas's encounter with John Smith and her legendary saving of his life.
John Ratcliffe (governor) John Ratcliffe (born John Sicklemore; 1549 – December 1609) was an early Jamestown colonist, mariner and captain of Discovery, the smallest of three ships (the other two being Susan Constant and Godspeed) that sailed from the Kingdom of England on 19 December 1606, to English-claimed Virginia to found a colony ...