National Native American Heritage Month PART 7:

 Pocahontas Unmasked 

There are many versions of DC's Pocahontas. Why DC? You may ask? Because according to a Washington Post map, the historic Powhatan Paramountcy exended from over the border of North Carolina, following the Cohnkarutan, or the Potomac River through Eastern Virginia, into Southern Maryland, ending up into most of Washington, DC where Wahunsenachaw or Powhatan, loved to caucasau (caucus) with the surrounding Indigenous natons, next o the Tiber Creek (See the map).

What did Matoka a.k.a. Pocahontas look like? 

This print below  is the title of DC artist and painter, Rose Powhatan a maternal Pamunkey and paternal Tauxenent & Wampanoag lineage and a descendant of Pocahontas’s uncle, Opichancanough who was concerned about Pocahontas’s portrayal by Dutch artist Simone van de Passé. 

So she made a print of the princess as a 100% Native American with with traditional facial tattoos a fan turned into a European face as de Passé had made her. Then other European-Americans at Jamestown and other places later portrayed her with her dad Wahunsenachawh & uncle, Opichancanough. (See Promo below). 

But, what did she look like? 

Academic? 

Promo? 

Comic book? 

Disney? 

1930s? 

Contemporary? 

Then there is Hollywood's pedophile movies. 

A supposed love story between a 27-year old man and an 11-year old princess. (Two DC Native Americans from Pocahontas's tribe, acted as extras in this movie).

Then, widower John Rolfe, was 26 -years old when he had a bigamous marriage to an already married 17-year-old woman, Pocahontas, with a son, and whose husband was a Powhatan warrior named Kocoum, around 1610 as was the custom, when she was a teenager. The British conveniently did not believe in "Heathen" marriages, so a Jamestown English serf court take away a Native man’s wife and obtain her land, since Powhatan women owned the property.