Pocahontas Early Life

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Pocahontas Early Life Pocahontas was born in 1595 in Powhatan. She had 20 brothers and 9 sisters, not including herself. She and her people were Powhatan. It had thirty different tribe groups. Powhatan had 14,000 to 15,000 people. The Powhatans had a “great king” also Pocahontas father. He was named after the settlement he was born in. At an early age Pocahontas was taught how to swim. Like many other Powhatan children she swam and bathed in crystal clean rivers. She also knew how to use a canoe at a very early age. She often liked to go exploring and playing in rivers and forests. Pocahontas enjoyed gathering different kinds of berries with her friends. She along with many other girls learned bead work. They did this so that they could have doll clothing made from beads. Women were depended on for doing things like gathering and preparing food, worked in fields, collected wood and got clean water to use. Women also did things around the house. For example, they would make and mend clothes from tanned hides, do chores around the house, but most important, they built the houses. Houses framework would be made of young trees. The thick ends were secured in the ground while the thinner parts were tied at the top with roots making a dome shaped hat. The walls and roof were made of mats from strips of woven marsh grass. Since Pocahontas was a princess she did not have to do this hard work. She was thought to speak gracefully and deliberately. She was thought pause between sentences. This was said to give listener time to think. She was also thought how to stand up straight and have good posture. Powhatan girls that could not do so were sometimes made to sit for hours with their back against a wall. When Pocahontas was eleven, she was the first to know the white men had arrived. Later at night they were attacked by several Powhatans. As soon as the white men
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