POCAHONTAS' LEGEND ENCHANTING.(Local) From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: November 11, 1997 | COPYRIGHT 1997 Rocky Mountain News. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Pocahontas is entwined in the history and legend of the American Colonies.

Pocahontas, born in 1595, was the favored daughter of Wahunsonacock, head of the 32-tribe Powhatan Confederacy in the Virginia Tidewater area. Her fame arose from her supposed 1608 rescue of John Smith, a leader of the Jamestown settlement, but historians have questioned whether the incident ever happened.

In 1612, Pocahontas was abducted and imprisoned in Jamestown. The colonists used...

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