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"So it is, that some 10 years ago being in Virginia, and considered prisoner by the energy of Powhatan their main King, I received out of this great Savage exceeding great courtesy, especially from his kid Nantaquaus, the most manliest, comeliest, boldest nature, I ever noticed in a Savage, and his sister Pocahontas, the King's most dear and well-beloved little princess, being but a kid of 12 or 13 years of age, whose compassionate pitiful heart, of my needy estate, gave me much cause to respect her." (John Smith, in a notice to Queen Anne, 1616) A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most important numbers, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. Plus they can do this while learning interesting facts long overlooked or never known. The life of Pocahontas fulfills a specific role in American culture and history. Her short life came up to symbolize the first encounters between British settlers and the local native tribes. This is of her name, "little plaything" or "little wanton", suggests that she was destined to be bandied about by the forces in her life. The men of that time period simply assumed a Native American girl did not deserve or even want respect.
