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Things we know / Things we don't know / Original chroniclers --> GO!
  • What was the tribe of Pocahontas? --> GO!
  • The Four Names of Pocahontas --> GO!
  • Timeline --> Go!
  • Public domain biography by Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) --> GO!
Controversies​​
  • Is John Smith's account of his rescue by Pocahontas true?  --> GO!
  • Did John Smith misunderstand a Powhatan 'adoption ceremony'?  --> GO!
  • What was the relationship between Pocahontas and John Smith?  --> GO!
    - All mentions of Pocahontas in John Smith's writings --> GO!
  • Is it possible that John Smith never actually met Pocahontas?  --> GO!
  • Was Smith's gunpowder accident actually a murder plot?  --> GO!
  • What should we make of Smith's "rescues" by so many women?  --> GO!
  • How should we view John Smith's credibility overall?  --> GO!
  • How was Pocahontas captured?  --> GO!
  • Did Pocahontas willingly convert to Christianity?  --> GO!
  • Were Pocahontas and John Rolfe in love?  --> GO!
    - Two versions of John Rolfe letter to Sir Thomas Dale (1614) --> GO!
  • What was the meaning of Pocahontas's final talk with John Smith?  --> GO!
  • How did Pocahontas die?  --> GO!
  • How did John Rolfe die? --> GO!
  • Was there a Powhatan prophecy that predicted the arrival of enemies from the east?  --> GO!
  • Why didn't the Powhatan Indians wipe out the Jamestown settlers when they had the chance?  --> GO!
  • When did the balance of power shift from the Powhatans to the English?  --> GO!
  • How big a part did European diseases play in the Jamestown story?  --> GO!
Books
  • Books for Adults  --> GO!
  • Notes in the Margins; Love & Hate in Jamestown  --> GO!
  • Books for Children  --> GO!
  • On Custalow's 'True Story' - Meeting in the Middle: Myth-making in The True Story of Pocahontas  --> GO!
  • Is the Sedgeford Hall Portrait Evidence of a Crime? --> GO!
  • Beaver Page --> GO!
  • Notes on Literary Hoaxes and Historical Theory --> GO!
  • How the Indians lost their land  --> GO!
Art
Images of Pocahontas / Not Pocahontas! - The Sedgeford Hall Portrait
  • Portraits --> GO!
  • More on the Simon van de Passe Engraving --> GO!
  • William Ordway Partridge Statue of Pocahontas --> GO!
  • The Disney representation of Pocahontas  --> GO!
  • Historical Images (Engravings and Watercolors) --> GO!
Films
List of films --> GO!
  • Links to articles - Disney  --> GO!
  • -- Emerson Goes to the Movies: Individualism in Walt Disney Company's Post-1989 Animated Films --> Go!
  • Links to articles - The New World  --> GO!
  • On "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"  --> GO!
Powhatan Tribes
Links to tribe websites --> GO!
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Updated Jan. 16, 2021