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Pocahontas was a younger daughter of Powhatan, chief of a federation of Algonquian Indian tribes who lived in the tidewater region of Virginia.
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As Pocahontas would learn, besides bearing and rearing children, women were responsible for building the houses (called yehakins by the Powhatan), which they may have owned.
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Pocahontas, later known as Rebecca Rolfe, was a native American Princess born around in Werowocomoco, Virginia.
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Pocahontas, Powhatan woman who fostered peace between English colonists and Native Americans by befriending the settlers at the Jamestown Colony in Virginia and eventually marrying one of them.