Pocahontas

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was actually an amalgam of various tribes that belonged to different linguistic families not related by blood, their only common ties being certain tools and implements marked by great stands of pine, cypress, and walnut trees and productive in cleared areas of pumpkin, maize, and beans (pecctatoas). (Woodward, 9) The Powhatans were made up of different combinations of Indian tribes some included the Cherokees, Iroquois, Monacans, Siuuan, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and the Muskhogean. The Powhatans dress was different between the sexes and classes of the tribe. Members of the royal household would wear many feather and deerskins on their bodies and usually painted themselves in bright colors. Men of lower standards wore just breechcloths covering their "privities"; it was usually made of rabbit skins or beaver skins. was born into the Powhatan tribes in either 1596 or 1597 historians aren’t exactly sure when she was born. Her place of birth is to be Werowocomoco, ...

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