[afraidfortherepublic]

[Snickering Hound]

That she likes Jello shots so much that she did 10 of them and passed out on the couch at the Friday Halloween party?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Indian gambling casinos were her idea?

[USMCPOP]

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.

[dfwgator]

Poke a what?

[JohnBrowdie]

I know she got me so drunk at the casino one night that I was splitting 10s on the blackjack table.

[twyn1]

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.

[MUDDOG]

She was Elizabeth Warren’s cousin.

[yarddog]

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.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Are we talking about Pokeofhontas or Sackofgewea?

[tumblindice]

By the shores of Gitcheegoomie,
By the shining big sea water,
Lies the crib o’ Pocohantas.
The End

[PowderMonkey]

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.

[DManA]

Smithsonian can’t be trusted. They have a political ax to grind.

[ClearCase_guy]

She had mild schizophrenia?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks afraidfortherepublic.

[GeronL]

Hollywood won’t care, they could make a 200-episode series about someone based on a single sentence in a diary.

[GeronL]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Geum

A female doctor to the King, all that is known about her is those 7 entries into the official Chronology. That is it.

That did not stop a Korean TV network from doing a 54 episode series about her life. lol. All embellishment really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dae_Jang_Geum

And if that wasn’t enough they followed that up with a 52-episde cartoon series, about her childhood. Of which nothing is known in reality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Geum%27s_Dream

You can find these online with subtitles I bet.

[1010RD]

Only her high cheekbones and almond-shaped eyes

Are high cheekbones and almond-shaped eyes unknown in England at that time?

[JoeProBono]

Pocahontas “Matoaka” & son Thomas (2 1/2 years old)

This Sedgeford portrait of Pocahontas and her son, Thomas Rolfe, carefully preserved through the centuries, although its travels and whereabouts have been been shrouded in mystery. Presently at Kings Lynn Museum.

[lepton]

“Rolfe, who “much lamented” her death, returned to Virginia and later married an Englishwoman. His son by Pocahontas, Thomas Rolfe, inherited his father’s plantation, married a colonist and joined the militia, which vanquished his mother’s people when they rose up a last time in rebellion.”

Rebellion, in the sense of “Attempted genocide” aka “the Indian massacre of 1622”, where they arrived with trade goods and foods to share, and for breakfasts, and then proceeded to slaughter approximately 1/4 of the population of the Jamestown colony in a highly coordinated attack through the whole penninsula. It was only because of a last-minute warning that they had been blocked from passing beyond the wall protecting the town-proper before the attacks began. It was originally thought the slaughter was even worse, as many women and children were taken into slavery and only discovered as having survived in captivity more than half a year later.