Pocahontas: The True Story
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Despite her being a household name, how much do we really know about Pocahontas? Where did she come from? How old was she? And what was her real relationship with the colonists?
Don is joined for this episode by Camilla Townsend, a Historian of Early Native American and Latin American History at Rutgers University. Camilla is the author of 'Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma' and, most recently, 'Indigenous Life After the Conquest: The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico'.
Produced by Sophie Gee. Edited by Siobhan Dale. The senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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| 1:33.5 | podcasts with you now. It's from the wonderful Don Wildman, part of his American history |
| 1:37.9 | hit, the chart-topping US History Hit podcast. It's all about Pocahontas the true story she's a |
| 1:44.4 | household name but how much we really know about her in this episode Don is |
| 1:48.2 | joined by Kimina Townsend she is a brilliant story she's been on history a few |
| 1:51.3 | times a historian of early Native American and Latin |
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