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Pocahontas (US: / ˌ p oʊ k ə ˈ h ɒ n t ə s /, UK: / ˌ p ɒ k-/; 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.
Monique Mojica (Kuna and Rappahannock) is a playwright, director, & actor based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.She was born in New York City, but came to Canada as founding member of Native Earth Performing Arts.
A Native American activist who claims ancestry from the same Virginia tribe as Pocahontas, the Pamunkey indigenous group, is not an enrolled member of the nation, according to the group’s former ...
Q'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher (/ ˌ k ɒr i ˈ æ ŋ k ə ˈ k ɪ l tʃ ər /; [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).
Irene Bedard (born July 22, 1967) is an Alaska Native actor, who has played mostly Native American lead roles in a variety of films. She is perhaps best known for the role of Suzy Song in the 1998 film Smoke Signals, [2] an adaptation of a Sherman Alexie collection of short stories, as well as for providing the speaking voice for the titular character in the 1995 animated film Pocahontas.
Rattling Blanket Woman , mother of Crazy Horse; Avis Red Bear, Sioux journalist; Delphine Red Shirt, Oglala writer and chair of Nongovernmental Organization Committee on the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations; Jeri Redcorn, Caddo/Citizen Potawatomi (born ca. 1940), potter
On March 22, 1622, Powhatan fighters killed 347 English colonists in Virginia. Instead, the survivors, supported by reinforcements and new weapons from England, launched a deadly series of reprisals.
Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America (Texas, 2000); Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma (Hill & Wang, 2004); Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (New Mexico, 2006); translated Malintzin: Una mujer indígena en la Conquista de México (Ediciones Era, Mexico, 2015)