Pocahontas was the daughter of Chief Powhatan of the Tsenacommacah tribal nations. She married John Rolfe in 1614 and together they had a son in 1615. They went to England in 1616 and she died in 1617.
Chat with our AI personalities
Pauline Johnson was born 10mar1862 on the Six Nation Indian Reserve, Brant county, Ontario. The daughter of Mohawk chief and an English mother, her Indian name was Tekahionwake. She started writing poetry in her youth about her Indian Heritage and its history and legends. For many years she toured Canada, the US and England presenting her works. Later she moved to Vancouver and continued to write. She died in Vancouver on 7mar1913. Her contribution to Canada was her lifelong work, preserving the Indian Heritage
Black Fish
A growling bear stopped him.
The Chief Magistrate of a town or district in Anglo-Saxon England was called a reeve, or in Old English, a gerefa(compare to the Swedish/Norwegian/Danish noble rank 'Greve' or the German 'Graf'). A reeve was an administrative officer responsible to the Crown, usually ranked below under an Earl. Before the Conquest, there were several diffrent forms of reeve, such as town-reeve, port-reeve, and shire-reeve, which later became the sheriff.
Helne Boulle was born in France. Hélène Boullé was the daughter of the wealthy Nicolas Boullé, a chief advisor to the king and married Samuel de Champlain the explorer.