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Pocahontas
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"Pocahontas" is set in 1607, just as a new age of exploration has begun. A group of British adventurers led by the greedy governor of the Virginia Company, John Ratcliffe, and including a fearless soldier named John Smith, have set sail for the New World aboard The Susan Constant, seeking gold and other treasures. Meanwhile, in Virginia, a beautiful young Native American woman named Pocahontas, the daughter of Chief Powhatan, ponders her path in life and dreams about what lies "just around the riverbend." Should she marry Kocoum, the stern warrior her father has chosen for her, or does destiny have something else planned for her? She turns to her forest friends -- Meeko, a mischievous raccoon, a feisty hummingbird named Flit and Grandmother Willow, a 400-year-old mystical spirit residing in an ancient tree -- for friendship and advice.
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Pocahontas was the nickname of Mataoaka, a young emissary between native tribes and English setters in North America's early Colonial period. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, an important chief of several tribes of Algonquian Indians in the Chesapeake Bay region (along the coast of Virginia). Although she is one of the most famous Native Americans in history, biographical details are based on few resources and murky at best. Much of the Pocahontas story came from Captain John Smith (1580-1631), an English promoter of colonization whose most well-known account was published several years after their acquaintance. According to Smith, his life was spared only through the intervention of Pocahontas, who at the time was around 12 years old. The story took on a romanticized flavor in the 19th century and over the years has been retold as a love story, but there is general agreement that Smith and Pocahontas were not sweethearts.
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[T]here is a further aspect to this issue: Pocahontas and Captain Smith have entered mythology, and their relationship has become a popular myth whereas the marriage between Pocahontas and John Rolfe is far more less known. History consists of events that happened, did not happen and could/should have happened. Myth, on the other hand, only needs a center of facts to originate from (though of course Postmodernists and New-Historicists are sceptical about such a clear-cut distinction). The relation between Pocahontas and Captain Smith is more attractive and therefore more suitable to function as the core of a myth because of its sense of seduction and transgression. Quite in contrast, the marriage between Pocahontas and Rolfe is less sensational because it was legalised: she was baptized, educated and therefore was a full member of the Jamestown community. Secondly there is no evidence for a romantic affair between Pocahontas and Captain Smith, but the lack of facts makes the relationship even more attractive, it leaves room for speculation and fabulation.
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In 1615 Pocahontas had her first child, Thomas, and the following year the family went to England. She met the king and queen of England and was received with royal honor. On the eve of her return to Virginia, Pocahontas died of smallpox and was buried in the chapel of the parish church in Gravesend, England. Her son was educated in England, but returned to Virginia and became an important settler; many prominent Virginians claim to be his descendants.
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Pocahontas probably saw white men for the first time in May 1607 when Englishmen landed at Jamestown. The one she found most likable was Captain John Smith. The first meeting of Pocahontas and John Smith is a legendary story, romanticized (if not entirely invented) by Smith. He was leading an expedition in December 1607 when he was taken captive by some Indians. Days later, he was brought to the official residence of Powhatan at Werowocomoco, which was 12 miles from Jamestown. According to Smith, he was first welcomed by the great chief and offered a feast.
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In Wyoming County, West Virginia, at Massey's Guyandotte Energy Resource Group, the rehabilitation effort in the Pocahontas 3 seam is nearly complete. The Company recently received seal plan approval from MSHA and expects to begin normalized production from this low volatile metallurgical coal reserve by early 2008. Production is expected to be about 250,000 tons in 2008, 750,000 tons in 2009, and 900,000 tons in 2010, all of which is expected to be sold into the international metallurgical coal market at attractive prices. Alternatively, the company may choose to monetize the coal reserve by divesting all or part of the property. The property is served by the Norfolk Southern railway.
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