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How Much Do We Really Know About Pocahontas?
The Smithsonian ^
| 11-3-13
| Tony Horwitz
Posted on 11/03/2013 3:30:17 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic; SunkenCiv
To: afraidfortherepublic
That she likes Jello shots so much that she did 10 of them and passed out on the couch at the Friday Halloween party?
To: afraidfortherepublic
Indian gambling casinos were her idea?
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:35:52 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(All your health decisions should be between a provider bean counter and the IRS - Obama)
To: afraidfortherepublic
I drove by a trailer park out in Powhatan County the other day and I think that was her out in the yard. She waved.
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:36:05 PM PST
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:36:54 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator; afraidfortherepublic
Allegations of her musical spirit filling some of the places where Lawrence Welk stayed put forth by reports of the residents. Whereby they claim that “Polkahauntus.”
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:39:57 PM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: afraidfortherepublic
I know she got me so drunk at the casino one night that I was splitting 10s on the blackjack table.
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:42:41 PM PST
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: afraidfortherepublic
I know she’s probably a distant cousin (my family is Pamunkey, of the Powhatan nation). A print of that engraving hangs in the church on our “reservation”.
Yeah, most of the Pocahontas stories are just that, stories. My Nana used to laugh at them, and the Disney movie was ridiculous.
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:48:22 PM PST
by
twyn1
To: afraidfortherepublic
She was Elizabeth Warren’s cousin.
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:51:22 PM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: afraidfortherepublic
Pocahontas is an interesting person. Her line almost died out as she only had one Son and I think only one survived for several generations then one had a bunch of kids and then her descendants flourished.
I have read that nearly all the first families of Virginia were descended from her including Robert E. Lee.
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:52:51 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Are we talking about Pokeofhontas or Sackofgewea?
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:53:23 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(On the evening of 10/16/13, the ailing republican party breathed its last breath.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
By the shores of Gitcheegoomie,
By the shining big sea water,
Lies the crib o’ Pocohantas.
The End
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posted on
11/03/2013 4:23:05 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
When I was a boy growing up in Virginia, stories of Powhatan, Pocahontas and Capt. John Smith were part of our education. Every story a morality tale, of cooperation among different peoples, strong work ethic (”If you will not work, you will not eat.”), and the fact that colonists got down on their knees, and prayed to God, thankful for their deliverance. Ahem, that was before God got kicked out of the public school system. My fondest memories as boy are those of wandering Virginia's Eastern woodlands, in the late autumn, under a soft pattering rain upon leaves of rust and gold. Every spooked whitetail darting through the trees, and every distant crow call was pure magic. Powhatan and his people were surely still there behind every tree. I can still smell the aroma of wood smoke from the hearth, and my father's pipe tobacco, as we carefully examined an arrowhead retrieved from the deep woods, and he would tell me stories of the Indians that once lived there.
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posted on
11/03/2013 4:32:42 PM PST
by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Smithsonian can’t be trusted. They have a political ax to grind.
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posted on
11/03/2013 4:38:55 PM PST
by
DManA
To: yarddog
The first families of Virginia were so interbred that it’s probably true.
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posted on
11/03/2013 4:41:15 PM PST
by
sphinx
To: afraidfortherepublic
She had mild schizophrenia?
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posted on
11/03/2013 4:50:13 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: afraidfortherepublic; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ..
Thanks afraidfortherepublic.
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posted on
11/03/2013 4:53:08 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: SunkenCiv
Uh, she is a non-Indian, who lied about it and got elec..Oh,no; that’s Fauxcahontas. Sorry.
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posted on
11/03/2013 5:01:22 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Hollywood won’t care, they could make a 200-episode series about someone based on a single sentence in a diary.
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posted on
11/03/2013 5:02:28 PM PST
by
GeronL
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