Never Ending Journey

From all the reading we've done and all the discussions we've had about Pocahontas one thing is clear: we don't really know what is fact and what is fiction. We don't really know what she looked like, how old she was, what she did or how many times she was married. I feel as though every source we look at we find some new piece of sketchy information. For example, in today's reading we heard for the first time that she might have saved John Smith TWICE. It kind of makes me wonder why so many people are so fascinated by someone we neither know now about nor will ever know very about. It's not like she was some hugely important figure. It's not like she was the first president of the United States or wrote the Declaration of Independence. No. She was a teenage girl caught up with an English sailor, was captured and converted to Christianity so she could move to England and die.