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Pocahontas’s Roles in Jamestown | Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare’s Shipwreck

9th Grade – 12th Grade

English

Pocahontas’s life and legacy is multifaceted and complex. Gain insight into her relationship with the English settlers around Jamestown through Warren Taylor’s, Pawmunkey, conversation with Chrisitan Wessling, Wampanoag. Her marriage to John Rolfe at first brought peace between the two communities, but she soon became used as a pawn between the two cultures. Using these details, recount Pocahontas’s roles in Virginia from 1610 to 1616.