1 She was one of twenty children of Chief Powhatan.

2 He presided over the Powhatan empire at the time the English established the Jamestown Colony (1607).

3 Powhatan ruled a group of more than twenty Indian tribes,(www.Sentencedict.com) in territory that is now the eastern state of Virginia.

4 In 1608, Pocahontas helped negotiate the return of Powhatan prisoners held by the colonists. Pocahontas was only about 12 years old when she did this!

5 Peace came when Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan, married John Rolfe, a tobacco farmer in Jamestown.

6 The Powhatan Indians lived in the area where the English colonists landed.

7 Powhatan had inherited rulership of an empire of six tribes from his father.

8 Algonquian leader who founded the Powhatan confederacy and maintained peaceful relations with English colonists after the marriage of his daughter Pocahontas to John Rolfe(1614).

9 In his precarious state he became a friend of Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan.

10 During the next two years, she continued to come between her father, Chief Powhatan, and members of her tribe in protecting the colonists .

11 Another story describes how the Native American princess Pocahontas saved the life of John Smith, the leader in Jamestown, when her father, Powhatan, wanted to kill him.

12 Have you seen the animated film "Pocahontas"?It tells the story of the daughter of Powhatan, the most powerful Indian chief of coastal Virginia in the early 1600s.

13 She became an important link between the colonists and her father, Powhatan.

14 The marriage resulted in generally friendly relations between the English and the Powhatan Indians, which persisted for a while after the chief's death.

15 They built villages. They grew many things. They created a strong political system, led by powerful chiefs like Powhatan.

16 She did go on to save his life once, when Powhatan Indians wanted his head, which was how she earned the respect of the settlers.

17 Beginning in the autumn of 1609, following Smith's departure for England, Powhatan came to believe that the English could be starved into submission.