"Pocahontas was only eleven years old when, on her knees, she begged her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare the life of the captured Englishman John Smith. According to tribal custom, this act made him her "brother," a kinship she never forgot. But relations between the Indians and the white settlers at the Jamestown colony were ever-changing. For ten more years, Pocahontas would be caught up in the tensions separating the two cultures. And before there could be peace between them, tradgedy came to Pocohontas."
