Well said, Nancy!

On that vein, I am rethinking my story plot since I read the article on 
Powhatan Women by Helen Roundtree.

Thinking of putting Pocahontas in a work group, perhaps of three, plus the 
Reader. I suspect such a work group would include Pocahontas' mother, and 
one other maiden about Pocahontas' age. I am open to suggestions for names 
of the mother and the other girl. Thanks for any.

I think I will have them deliver some corn to trade at Jamestown, perhaps 
three baskets of husked corn for a shovel and some pretties. The Reader will 
help them negotiate the trade, since the settlers will ask for more corn to 
trade for a shovel. John Smith may be involved in the trade.

The shovel is to be used in harvesting the tubers from the swamp, that are 
used for flour when corn isn't available. Without a shovel, the women are 
using brute strength to pull out the tubers.

With the advice from Helen Rountree's article, I will have breakfast from 
the stew pot, and, after their return from the corn trade, they will butcher 
meat to add to the stew pot.

I am uncertain if Pocahontas is living in the hut with her mother and 
perhaps stepsisters, or in the house of her father, the Powhatan. At 14-15 
she may be married and living in her own shelter.

Any suggestions from those who know more than I do.

Anne

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> You are making a huge leap here, no one ever said books should be 
> "sprinkled with inaccuracies" to appeal to the kids. All I said was,  if 
> there was some obscure detail that only the serious experts would  even 
> notice, it should be excused by those same experts. And it still  wouldn't 
> take away from the whole good the literary work would have  on the kids. I 
> am in no way advocating passing on nice fabrications.  History, even 
> fiction and even for kids, should of course teach  facts. But to the 
> non-expert and scholar, it is not something people  are going to obsess 
> over to the Nth degree, and it is that kind of  extreme attention to 
> detail that turns the average person off to  history. Make it palatable, 
> make it interesting, make it human,  something they [kids and adults] can 
> relate to. Help them learn.
>
> Nancy
>
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> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
>
> --Daniel Boone
>
> 

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