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So Many People Seem To Need Pocahontas, Even After Four Centuries

ISSUES Posted: June 24, 2014 12:47 am

Laurie Gwen Shapiro travels to Historic Jamestowne for the 400th anniversary reenactment of Pocahontas’s wedding to English settler John Rolfe – and finds the chieftain’s daughter is still important to a surprising variety of individuals, from tourism officials (of course) to archaeologists to First-Families-of-Virginia aristocrats to native tribes still trying to get Federal recognition.

ISSUES Published: 06.22.14

Read the story in Slate Published: 06.22.14

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