As is possible even today among the area’s Native Americans, she received multiple names, including Matoaka and Amonute. (Credit: Three Lions/Getty Images)īorn around 1596, Pocahontas was reputedly the favorite daughter of Wahunsenaca (known to the English as Powhatan), paramount chief of a coalition of some 30 Algonquian-speaking tribes in Virginia’s Tidewater region. Painting of Pocahontas around the time of her wedding to John Rolfe.
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