Pocahontas costumes for girls are a perennial favorite for Halloween. This Disney Pocahontas costume for girls is a great choice – available in a variety of sizes, it’s made of a a soft faux suede material and has a jeweled Pocahontas cameo. It also includes two temporary tattoos for play fun.
Pocahontas’s birth year is unknown, but some historians estimate it to have been around 1595 based on the accounts of Captain John Smith. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of Tsenacommacah, an alliance of American Indian tribes and groups in the area of what would later be Virgina.
Pocahontas’s childhood likely was no different from most girls who lived in Tsenacommacah. She learned how to perform what was considered to be women’s work, which included foraging for food and firewood, farming, and searching for the plant materials used in building thatch houses. As she grew older, she probably helped with other members of Powhatan’s household preparing large feasts. It’s supposed that this is how she met John Smith, who she later married.
When she converted to Christianity and too the Anglicized name of “Rebecca” – it is surmised that may have been a symbolic gesture to Rebecca of the Book of Genesis who, as the mother of Jacob and Esau, was the mother of two “nations,” or distinct peoples. Pocahontas, as an American Indian marrying an Englishman, likely would have been seen by herself and by her contemporaries as also being, potentially, the mother of two nations.
What a fantastic role model Pocahontas is, and the Pocahontas costume for girls is a fantastic Halloween choice for your little girl.
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