Pretty shocking from start to finish

Firstly, this isn't Pocahontas's "own" story, it's the story of the white settlers who she met. I hadn't expected her to have written it, but really, her name must have been used at the time to sell the book because she appears just every now and then in the narrative. She doesn't have a voice, she's just a very minor character used for the author's purposes.

On one hand I think this book is important because it's a pretty detailed description of Virginia in the 1600s but also if you want to understand the full, shocking, horror of what the white settlers/invaders were up to at this time, this gives a very open run down of it. Casual mentions of slaughtering indigenous people, exploiting them (indeed, given the title the exploitation starts before the book begins since this isn't really about Pocahontas but her name is being used to sell the book) and various derogatory terms for indigenous people, and ideas about them abound in this short book. What's more amazing is, is that at no point so any of the contributers see anything they do as wrong. Justification for colonization and stealing land and exploiting other people are just inherant in them. I think if you want to understand the depths of man's shocking callousness, this is an interesting book to read. All of it made me sad and angry, not the least for Pocahontas.

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