35: Pocahontas Ends a War (Part 5)

An Old Timey Podcast

True Crime, History, Comedy

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🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

In this final episode of our series on Pocahontas, we see Pocahontas navigate life as a kidnapped young woman. She gets a marriage proposal. She ushers in an era of peace for her people. She gives birth. She’s taken to England. At one point, she tells off that douchelord, John Smith.

Her life story presents challenges for historians, not just because Native American oral history conflicts with English sources, but because she held so many roles in her short life – often at the same time. She was a survivor, a victim, a diplomat, a spy, an adventurer, a mother, a wife, a peacekeeper, an aristocrat, and a curiosity. Through it all, one thing is certain: Pocahontas’s life was remarkably short, but her impact is incalculable.

Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from:
Custalow, Linwood, and Angela L. Daniel. The True Story of Pocahontas. Fulcrum Publishing, 2007.
“John Rolfe | Historic Jamestowne,” n.d. https://historicjamestowne.org/history/pocahontas/john-rolfe/.
Rountree, Helen C. Pocahontas’s People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries. University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.
“Thomas Rolfe | Historic Jamestowne,” n.d. https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/thomas-rolfe.htm.
Townsend, Camilla. Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemna. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Woodward, Grace Steele. Pocahontas. Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1969.

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0:00.0	Hear ye, hear ye.
0:02.4	You are listening to an old-timey podcast.
0:05.7	I'm Norman Caruso.
0:07.0	And do they know it's Christmas time at all?
0:10.7	It's Kristen Caruso.
0:12.5	We know, whoa, whoa, whoa.
0:16.5	Oh, Norm, please don't sing.
0:18.5	We're going to have some singing coming up on this episode.
0:21.4	We are?
0:22.1	I'm afraid so.
0:23.3	Oh, God.
0:24.3	Well, on this episode, it's the finale of my series on Pocahontas.
0:30.0	Woohoo!
0:31.1	Thank you.
0:31.7	Thank you very much.
0:33.5	Appreciate y'all sticking around for this.
0:35.5	Yeah.
0:36.3	I have loved this series.
0:38.3	It took a true crime bend.
0:41.5	Well, I guess it was always true crime because there were always crimes happening.
0:46.4	Lots of crimes happening in the new world.
0:48.5	We didn't see the muscle shells coming, though.
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