Mother[edit]
The identity and exact group origin of Pocahontas's mother has never been known, but her status would have been lowly. In his Relation of Virginia (1609), the colonist Henry Spelman, who had lived among the Powhatan serving as an interpreter, noted Chief Powhatan's many wives. Each wife gave the paramount chief one child, after which she not only resumed her status as a commoner but was also sent back where she had come from.[23] However, some historians even theorize her mother died during childbirth
The identity and exact group origin of Pocahontas's mother has never been known, but her status would have been lowly. In his Relation of Virginia (1609), the colonist Henry Spelman, who had lived among the Powhatan serving as an interpreter, noted Chief Powhatan's many wives. Each wife gave the paramount chief one child, after which she not only resumed her status as a commoner but was also sent back where she had come from.[23] However, some historians even theorize her mother died during childbirth
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