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In Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, Camilla Townsend reconstructs Pocahontas's biography against the backdrop of early English colonialism in Virginia. Powhatan, her father, was a powerful chief who used strategic alliances to unite tribes. Pocahontas was taken hostage by the English, learned about their culture, married John Rolfe, and traveled to England, where she died before delivering her insights back home.