What do the actions of Pocahontas in her kidnapping, imprisonment, marriage, conversion to Christianity, and death tell us about the complexity of Native Americans around the time Europeans arrived in North America? As part of your answer, choose at least three major moments in Pocahontas’s life and explains those events from her perspective (as opposed to the perspective of someone like John Smith).

If we explore major moments in Pocahontas life from the perspective Townsend offers in her book, what do we learn about Algonquian (or Powhatan) Indians at the time of colonization?

For example, what do the actions of Pocahontas in her kidnapping, imprisonment, marriage, conversion to Christianity, and death tell us about the complexity of Native Americans around the time Europeans arrived in North America? As part of your answer, choose at least three major moments in Pocahontas’s life and explains those events from her perspective (as opposed to the perspective of someone like John Smith).