Introduction

Greg Jannap is the presenter of Horrible Histories and You're Dead to Me. Today we meet Pocahontas, except that wasn't actually her name or at least not always. We think she was born as Princess Ammonute probably in 1596. Her dad was called Wuhun Seneca and he was known as Chief Paatan. She spent a lot of her life going by the name of Matawaka - meaning flower between two streams. In 1607 about 100 people from England arrived on ships and set up a wooden fort near where her tribe lived. The English called it James Town because everyone there had to change their name to James. They also thought it