Pocahontas was born around 1595. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the chief of the Algonquian Indians in the Tidewater region, and she was an Indian princess. Pocahontas’s mother is unknown though Pocahontas has many stepmothers, because Chief Powhatan had many wives and once they had their first born child the women who just gave birth to the baby would return to the village while the Chief would take the baby and take care of it.

When Pocahontas was born, the Algonquian Indians named her Matoaka which means "Little Wanton”, or “playful little girl”. Pocahontas also has another name: Amonute. Pocahontas means mischievous, which is a good name for her.  
Around 1607, Pocahontas first saw white men. John Smith was with them. Powhatan did not like John. Powhatan invited John to a feast. But when he arrived, they took him and laid his head on two big stones. Chief Powhatan held a club, ready to bring it down, but Pocahontas rushed over and laid herself across his body protecting him. Powhatan stopped and let John Smith go. Pocahontas made friends with John Smith, and the Indians and colonists traded, but John Smith was injured by a gunpowder explosion and returned to England. When Pocahontas went to Jamestown, the colonists told her that John Smith was dead. Only the truth was that he was in England healing.

Captain S. Argall found out where Pocahontas was and planned to capture her. Captain Argall lured Pocahontas onto his ship. He sent word to Powhatan that he would return his daughter when the chief had returned the English prisoners he held.
After almost a year of captivity, Pocahontas was sent ashore where she meet with two of her brothers. She moved to a new place, Henrico, where she began her education in Christian Faith. While she was there, she met a tobacco planter named John Rolfe. John Rolfe eventually married Pocahontas.

After about seven months, Rolfe decided to go back to Virginia with his family. In 1617 John Rolfe and his family set sail. However, Pocahontas became very sick from pneumonia or tuberculosis. She was taken ashore.Pocahontas was only 22 years old when she died. They buried her in a churchyard in England.
Many people know the story of Pocahontas. Walt Disney even made a movie about her in.                                                                                                     

Bibliography

http://www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas_(1995_film)