![]() ![]() Everything changed while they were at Orapax, Powhatan’s new capital. ![]() Thomas Savage moved with the Powhatans, and was soon joined by another boy, 14-year-old Henry Spelman. Powhatan moved his capital farther west to a location much harder for the English to reach, and Pocahontas quit visiting the fort. Afterward, Powhatan called Smith his son. ![]() In his 1624 Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, Smith wrote that she risked her own life to save his, but modern scholars think she was probably playing a scripted role in some kind of adoption ceremony. Suddenly Pocahontas intervened and put her head on his. He was brought before the Great Powhatan, where he encountered men with clubs ready, he thought, to beat out his brains. Smith first met Pocahontas when he was captured a few weeks after the first colonists’ arrival in the area. Captain John Smith said her “wit, and spirit” made her stand out. She was the daughter of the Great Powhatan, who ruled over numerous client tribes in the Chesapeake, the region the Powhatans called Tsenacomaca, and he selected her for a special role because of her intelligence and personality. Pocahontas was an extremely talented and lively 10-year-old girl when Jamestown was founded in 1607. We all think we know Pocahontas, but her real story is very different from the popular image. ![]()
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