Powhatan's+Daughter

=Powhatan's Daughter=

Chief Powhatan (d. 1618) was so called because he lead the [|Powhatan] tribe of Virginia; his actual name was Wahunsunacock. His tribe were the first Native Americans encountered by the British settlers of Jamestown.

"[|Powhatan]" is stressed on the last syllable and does not rhyme with "[|Manhattan]," although a rhyming pronunciation is given as a second choice.

[|Pocahontas] was the nickname of Powhatan's daughter. It meant "wanton one" according to William Strachey, who wrote a contemporaneous work (in about 1612 according to Wikipedia, or 1615 according to Nilsen) called //The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Brittania//. (Strachey's book was reprinted in 2001, and is the source of this section's epigraph).

She supposedly saved Captain John Smith from being murdered by the Powhatans, although it is apparently only a myth that she and he were lovers. She later married John Rolfe, a colonist, and died in London in 1617.

epigraph: **make them / wheele, falling on their hands, / turning their heels upwards** : describes a cartwheel.

epigraph: **naked as she was** : does this refer to genuine, total nakedness, or just a state of indecent under-dress by the standards of the colonists?

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