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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"In 1607, three ships arrive on the coast of Virginia to establish Jamestown Colony. One girl's life-- and the lives of her people-- will be changed forever. To Pocahontas and her tribe, the Tidewater is the rightful home to the Powhatans. To England, it is Virginia Territory, fertile with promise, rich with silver and gold. As Jamestown struggles to take root, John Smith knows that the only hope for survival lies with the Powhatan people. He...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Set admidst the first encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Virginia settlement in 1607. Tells the classic tale of Pocahontas and her relationships with adventurer John Smith and aristocrat John Rolfe. This woman's journey of love lost and found again takes her from the untouched beauty of the Virginia wilderness to the upper crust of English society as we witness the dawn of a new America.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Pocahontas was only eleven years old when, on her kneesm she begged her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare the life of the captured Englishman John Smith. According to trival custom, this act made her "brother", a kinship she never forgot. But relations between the Indians and the white settlers at the Jamestown colony were ever-changing. For ten more years, Pocahontas would be caught up in the tensions separating the two cultures. And before there...
4) Pocahontas
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of 17th century Jamestown, Virginia.
5) Pocahontas
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of the Powhatan Indian woman who befriended the English settlers at Jamestown, Virginia, and helped maintain peace between her tribe and the colonists.
6) Pocahontas
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A brief biography of the seventeenth-century Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.
7) Pocahontas
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Description
A musical animated version of the life of Pocahontas, an American Indian girl who legend says saved the life of explorer and colonist John Smith.
Author
Description
John Simpson Smith (1810-1871) counted among his acquaintances Indianchiefs and United States presidents. He was a fur trapper, a trader for Charles Bent, and a recognized spokesman for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, with whom he lived much of his life. He served as interpreter for major treaty negotiations and accompanied three delegations of chiefs to Washington, D.C. to visit Presidents Fillmore, Lincoln, and Grant. He was in Black Kettle's...
10) Pocahontas
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Tells the story of Pocahontas, the daughter of the Chief Powhatan, who married an English colonist, and traveled to England before her death in 1617.
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Pocahontas: The story of the relationships between Native Americans and the early English settlers in the Virginia colony, centered on the story of the Indian princess Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Pocahontas II: The story continues as Pocahontas sets sail for England to try to save her people from extinction
15) Pocahontas
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A brief biogrpahy of Pocahontas, a Powhatan Indian who worked throughout her life to establish peace between her people and the English.