The Princess Pocahontas

A young Native woman at the early English settlement of Jamestown navigates shifting loyalties between her people and the colonists, alternating between acts of protection, diplomacy, and defiance. Drawing on early colonial narratives, the account dramatizes the episode in which she intervenes on behalf of an English leader, then depicts her long-running aid to the starving colony, ceremonies that suggest tribal adoption, encounters that lead to captivity and baptism, her marriage to an English settler, and a transatlantic visit to England. The narrative closes with her sudden illness and death abroad and notes her descendants' continuance in the colonies.