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.

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

So familiar. :o)

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

Utterly fascinating. Pocahontas is an American folk hero. We all grow up knowing the name and a little bit of the story, but I had never heard as much of it as I did in your blog post this morning. Of course, there was a Disney movie, but I've never seen it. I have no idea how accurate it is. (I doubt any)

[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.

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

Her, and 99% of her people. I did see The New World, seems like it was OK.