Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat

Allen, Paula Gunn

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“…These lines demonstrated how she was responsible for saving John Rolfe and the settlers from bankruptcy by teaching than how to plant tobacco. Furthermore, although the grand narrative says that she did due to love and obedience, Allen (2004) points out that it was part of her Dream-Vision and that it was Pocahontas intention to be infiltrated among the English settlers in order to share spirituality and native technology. She knew that fighting against the white would be a bloody tragedy, so she found ways to maintain peace between both sides.…”

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“…In 1614, after Pocahontas married John Rolfe -by that time, she had already been rebaptized as Rebecca -she went to England, where she became part of royal circles. Allen (2004) reports Pocahontas accounts for English spirituality: according to her, many influential people were interested in the occult and it was her will to exchange "arcane knowledge" with them and to deliver this knowledge back to the Native Elders. Even though she died in her voyage back, Indian spirituality does not end with the death of the body; hence her knowledge would be shared despite the fact she had no physical presence.…”

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“…Putting her in the position of "simple foolish wanton maid" was his strategy to overshadow her powers and raise his importance before the Crown. However, Allen (2004) observes he was well aware of her force and used it to achieve what he wanted. But, when she became dangerous due to the gathering of information about the English Crown, he found a way to eliminate her:…”

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“…The description of her death as "wasting" and "putrefying" followed by the adjective "deceiver" directed to Rolfe challenges the official version that she died by natural causes. In Pocahontas's biography, Allen (2004) also observes that the failing of providing medical reports and information about her death can be seen as a trace of his involvement in her death.…”

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Western History and Literature have been perpetuating the image of women who have played an important role in the creation of the nation. According to those narratives, they emerge as figures that have helped European men to understand, connect and be part of native culture.Most importantly, they abandoned their own culture in order to build a more “civilized” nation in alliance with the Europeans and therefore they are seen as traitors. However, more recent studies tell us different stories about those women, stories that reveal that, in fact, these women were subjugated and/or discredited. From this perspective, this article aims at reflecting upon the oppressive patriarchal colonial forces that build the narrative of native people as the other. In that intent, we will analyze the poem “Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe,” as well as the biography of Pocahontas, both written by Paula Gunn Allen, a native American writer, who gives voice to the silenced native woman and the tradition of her people.

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“…These are not the only treatments of Pocahontas, of course. Also see Woodward, Pocahontas ; Litchfield, Pocahontas and Allen, Pocahontas.…”

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Many American Indians – as captives and of their own free will – crossed the Atlantic during the early modern period. Far too frequently, however, historians have been caught up in cataloging experiences – answering questions about what these indigenous travelers did when they were abroad. More penetrating questions about why transatlantic Indians embarked on these crossings or how these journeys affected their subsequent lives remain largely unasked. This essay will not only outline the chronologically long, but substantively limited historiography of transatlantic Indians, it will also argue for a more focused, contextually thorough, and ethnohistory‐centric approach to the examination of these voyagers. Such a shift in methodology, moreover, will help the “Red Atlantic” congeal as a legitimate means of historical analysis.

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Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat

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The decolonial perspective on America’s founding mother myth: a study of Paula Gunn Allen’s Pocahontas

The decolonial perspective on America’s founding mother myth: a study of Paula Gunn Allen’s Pocahontas

Transatlantic Indians in the Early Modern Era

The Return of the Native: Recent Scholarship in the Literature of Christianization and Contact

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