Pocahontas and her relevance...May 1607, Englishmen landed at Jamestown lead by Capt. John Smith....Pocahontas befriends them as a little girl
..."As a compassionate little girl she saw to it that the colonists received food from the Indians, so that Jamestown would not suffer the fate of the "Lost Colony." She is said to have intervened to save the lives of individual colonists. In 1616 John Smith wrote that Pocahontas was "the instrument to save this colony from death, famine, and utter confusion." And Pocahontas not only served as a representative of the Virginia Indians, but also as a vital link between the native Americans and the Englishmen. Whatever her contributions, the romantic aspects of her life will no doubt stand out in Virginia history forever."
...To Powhatan, the presence of the small Jamestown colony was nothing more than a stone in his shoe compared to the threat from large, ambitious tribes on his western frontier."
Pocahontas and American history
