The True Story of Pocahontas elders It's 1957 during the Civil

It's 1957 during the Civil Rights Era

Naomi Shihab Nye

of what they were and have become

and Annie Heloise Abel

the Echota family has been suspended in private grief

The True Story of Pocahontas elders It's 1957 during the CivilThe other side of history. For the first time in 400 years, the true story of Pocahontas is revealed by her own people. This important book shares the sacred and previously unpublished oral history of the Mattaponi tribe and their memories of 17th century Jamestown that have been passed down from generation to generation. Dr. Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow was born on the Mattaponi Reservation in West Point, the eldest son of Chief Daniel Webster