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Book Review of The Double Life of Pocahontas

The Double Life of Pocahontas
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Did Pocahontas actually save John Smith's life? Probably not. In a fresh and startling look at Pocahontas, Jean Fritz shows how lifely it was that she was just playing the traditional role of sponsor in his adoption into her father's tribe. In any cse, from tht moment Pocahontas had two worlds: the happy world of her Indian village where she greeted the Sun as it rose every orning and the strange but intriguing world of the English colonits where she learned to turn cartwheels and lead the English boys hand-over-hand down the street.