Pocahontas was Native American.
 However, little is known about Pocahontas's mother, and it has been theorized that she died in childbirth
== Interactions with the colonists ===== John Smith ===Pocahontas is most famously linked to colonist Captain John Smith, who arrived in Virginia with 100 other settlers in April 1607 where they built a fort on a marshy peninsula on the James River

