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John Smith

1991
A biography of the seaman and explorer who helped settle Jamestown and whose explorations of Virginia and New England helped pave the way for colonists.

Pocahontas, girl of Jamestown

1979
A brief account of the life of the Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.

The story of Pocahontas, Indian princess

1996
A biography of the seventeenth-century Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.

The double life of Pocahontas

1983
A biography of the famous American Indian princess, emphasizing her life-long adulation of John Smith and the roles she played in two very different cultures.

Pocahontas

peacemaker and friend to the colonists
2004
A brief biography that highlights some important events in the life of the woman who helped to bring about peace and friendship between English settlers in Virginia and the native Powhatan people.

Pocahontas, Powhatan princess

1997
Relates the life story and accomplishments of the princess of the Powhatan Indian Nation who married the English settler John Rolfe.

Pocahontas

daughter of a chief
1988
A brief biography of the American Indian princess who as a young girl befriended John Smith, saving him from death at the hands of her father, and later was very helpful to the colonists at Jamestown.

Young Pocahontas

Indian princess
1992
A simple biography of the seventeenth-century Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.

Blood on the river

James Town 1607
2006
Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.

You wouldn't want to be an American colonist!

a settlement you'd rather not start
2004
Cartoons and facts combine to explain what it was like to be an American colonist in the seventeenth century, discussing the realities of the voyage from England, dealing with Indians, and struggling for survival in the new world.
Cover image of You wouldn't want to be an American colonist!

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