Orem Library

Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of seventeenth-century Jamestown, Virginia.

Presents the adventures of international explorer John Smith, a soldier who made several daring escapes from Turks and American Indians, helped save Jamestown, the first English colony, and wrote stories of colonial America.

The story of Pocahontas, the Native American princess who became a courageous and generous young woman who was willing to risk her father's wrath to help the starving English settlers at Jamestown. She was then betrayed and kidnapped and was a dignified and cool-headed captive. Eventually she became a noble and handsome woman who was presented to the King and Queen of England.

In striking counterpoint to the conventional account, Pocahontas is a bold biography that tells the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden from a Native American perspective. Dr. Paula Gunn Allen, the acknowledged founder of Native American literary studies, draws on sources often overlooked by Western historians and offers remarkable new insights into the adventurous life and sacred role of this foremost American heroine. Gunn Allen reveals...

Pocahontas: Legendary tale of Native American Pocahontas and her unlikely romance with British Captain John Smith. Pocahontas II: Pocahontas sets off on a journey to England with Meeko, Flit, and Percy. Hearing rumors of John Smith's death, Pocahontas tries to prevent war and battle.

The apocryphal story of the meeting of British explorer John Smith and Powhatan native Pocahontas as a romantic idyll between spiritual equals. It then follows Pocahontas through her marriage to John Rolfe and her life in England.