Pocahontas Statue, Gravesend

[poliphilo]

No-one knows what killed Pocanhontas, but she must have been wide open to any infection that was going the rounds. She was taken ill shortly after boarding a ship bound for Virginia and died in the arms of her husband, John Rolfe. She was buried in the chancel of St George's Church at Gravesend- a place of honour befitting her status as a daughter of "King" Powhatan. She was in her early 20s.

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[sovay]

Have you seen Terence Malick's The New World? It is a beautiful distillation of dirt-under-the-nails, corn-husk, leaf-mold reality and the myths as John Smith told them and the life underneath the myths as the woman who went by Pocahontas and Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe might have told them, which the film has to imagine; I went into it with some skepticism and came out thinking it was extraordinarily beautiful. Q'orianka Kilcher is amazing.

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I haven't, but I may have to.

Pocahontas was a remarkable woman.