Pocahontas

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-16-18
  

  How Pocahontas — the myth and the slur — props up white supremacy

  by Honor Sachs

  The roots of the attacks on Elizabeth Warren.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  2-14-18
  

  Elizabeth Warren’s striking speech responding to Trump’s “Pocahontas” taunts

  “Pocahontas’s real journey was far more remarkable — and far darker — than the myth admits.”

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  11-28-17
  

  The dark history of Pocahontas, whose name Trump keeps evoking to slam Elizabeth Warren

  "Pocahontas" was the nickname of a teenage girl who was abducted by English colonists in 1613 and died at about the age of 21.

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• SOURCE: The Junto
  11-21-17
  

  Did Squanto meet Pocahontas in London?

  by E. M. Rose

  Circumstantial evidence suggests that they met when they were staying only a few hundred yards down the street from each other in the homes of men with interlocking business interests.

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• 12-21-14
  

  The Day Captain John Smith Met Pocahontas

  by Peter Firstbrook

  He claimed she saved him twice. The truth is it was probably once.

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• 8-3-14
  

  The Lesson from America’s First Interracial Marriage

  by Jeffrey Glover

  You know the bride’s name, but probably get her history wrong.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  6-18-13
  

  Likely Virginia site of complex Indian empire

  GLOUCESTER, Va. — A farm field overlooking the York River in Tidewater Virginia is believed to be where Pocahontas interceded with her powerful father Powhatan to rescue English Capt. John Smith from death.That’s a fanciful footnote for many Virginia Indians, historians and archaeologists, who say the real story is that this land was the center of a complex, sprawling empire ruled by Powhatan long before the first permanent English settlement in American was founded in 1607. It was called Werowocomoco, which roughly translates to a “place of chiefs.”...