17. For starters, there was no love story à la Romeo and Juliet between the real Captain John Smith and Pocahontas — a major theme in Disney’s version.
18. For starters, there was no love story à la Romeo and Juliet between the real Captain John Smith and Pocahontas — a major theme in Disney's version.
19. Her mom life: Pocahontas is the leader of her daughter's Girl Scouts troop and loves taking the girls on nature hikes to see "the colors of the wind."
20. In 1608, Pocahontas helped negotiate the return of Powhatan prisoners held by the colonists. Pocahontas was only about 12 years old when she did this!
1608年时,透过波卡洪塔斯的协调,殖民同意释放波瓦坦囚犯,而当时的她才12岁大!
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21. Hollywood loves a romance, and its problem with Pocahontas, historically speaking, is that she and Smith were very likely never more than cordial allies.
22. Smith later reported that Pocahontas heroically saved his life by throwing herself between him and his executioners and convincing her father to free him.
23. Her eventual trip to England with Rolfe and their newborn son proved a fund-raising boon to the colony, with Pocahontas serving as a kind of poster girl for the Virginia Company.
24. Her eventual trip to England with Rolfe and their newborn son proved a fund-raising boon to the colony, with Pocahontas serving as a kind of poster girl for the Virginia Company.