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Pocahontas and the Jamestown Colony (redirected from Pocohontas and the Jamestown Colony)

Page history last edited by Robert W. Maloy 1 month, 1 week ago

Image shows the Pocahontas statue, Jamestown, VA

Pocahontas statue, Jamestown, VA

Topics on the Page

 

Biography Resources

 

Primary Sources

 

Multimedia Materials

 

Learning Plans and the Disney Myth

 

Ecological Imperialism

 


Biography Resources

 

  • Pocahontas from the Virtual Jamestown website.  

 

 

 

  • John Smith from the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation website 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTABLE FACT:

Pocahontas is the only Native American whose portrait is in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building.


external image Captain_Smith_and_Pocahontas.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Primary Sources


John Smith also wrote to Queen Anne of Great Britain in 1616 advocating on behalf of Pocahontas and that testimony can be viewed here.

Jamestown Primary Sources from the Library of Congress

 

Pocahontas Revealed: Images of a Legend

 

  • The Virginia Historical Society, led by curators William Rasmussen and Robert Tilton, assembled more than 40 paintings, prints, drawings, sheet music, and other objects. Link here to view a sampling of the exhibit.

 

Captain John Smith

Captain John Smith

Jamestown Rediscovery - Pocahontas

  • I added a link to the Jamestown Rediscovery. This organization is committed to the archaeological and historical preservation and education of the first American settlement. I found an article about the life of Pocahontas, which provides a biography of her life broken into sections.
  • Also, there I found an interactive timeline of the historic site

 

Pocahontas saving the life of Capt. John Smith from the Library of Congress

 

 

 

 

 Multimedia Resources

 

Virtual Jamestown is a huge collection of primary sources, maps, and public records of historic Jamestown and its inhabitants.

 

 

The Other Jamestown explores the settlement from the perspectives of Algonquian-speaking Indians of Early Virginia

 


The True Story of Pocahontas as NOT Told by Disney

 


Pocahontas Movie (1995)

 

The Story of Pocahontas from PBS Learning Media

 

 Here is a video from the instructional Biography website, Pocahontas' video is apart of the Folk Hero anthology https://www.biography.com/people/pocahontas-9443116

 

A video done by the Smithsonian Organization encompassing what is truth from what is myth on Pocahontas https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-much-do-we-really-know-about-pocahontas-4206184/

 

 

Life In Jamestown Colony by History.com

 

 

 

Learning Plans and the Disney Myth

 

 

See this site, for lesson plans about Pocahontas and other areas of American history.

Pocahontas: Myth and Misrepresentation

 

 

What messages are conveyed by each of these images?

 

  

 

A video done by the Smithsonian Organization encompassing what is truth from what is myth on Pocahontas 

 

 

 

The True Story of Pocahontas by Smithsonian Organization

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jamestown and the Jamestown Colony

 

The Jamestown Colony is known for two important historical developments or "firsts"

 

  • English America's first representative government

 

  • First English colony to use captured Africans as slaves

 

 

 

A Short History of Jamestown, National Park Service

 

Click on the following link for interactive material on Jamestown, including 3D representations of a native village and colonial fort plus interactive maps on John Smith's voyages.

Video about remnants from the lost library of Jamestown.

 

Jamestown Timeline

 

Starving Time by Timeline

 

 

 

 


    Ecological Imperialism

     
    Moreover, notes Charles Mann, "the colonists did not come to the Americas alone. Instead, they were accompanied by a great parade of insects, plants, mammals, and microorganisms" (National Geographic, May 2007, p. 37). In addition, the English settlers "replaced or degraded so much of the native ecosystem that they made it harder and harder for the Indians to survive in their native lands" (p. 44). The great impact came from the roles played by tobacco, honeybees, and domestic animals, each of which fundamentally changed the ecological balance of native life.

    See also John Rolfe from the National Park Service site on Historic Jamestown.

     

    Jamestown's Environment by Dennis B. Blanton

     

     Study/Assessment Resources

     

    Jamestown/Pocahontas Key Terms Flashcards

     

    Jamestown Quizizz 

     

    Jamestown: From Rags to Riches Quiz

     

     

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