Clara Barton and Pocahontas are women who have been influential throughout history. Pocahontas, was a Powhatan Native American woman and daughter of the Algonquin Chief Powhatan who had a significant role in the Native American population. Also, Pocahontas was the most significant Indian who is recognized for her involvement with English colonial settlement at Jamestown. As equally important to mention about Clara Barton, another symbolic woman who played an important role in the history. Barton was a pioneering registered nurse who founded the American Red Cross and she is remembered as the mainly supporter and who gave medical assistance to thousands of men who served in the military forces during the civil war. Even though these two women had many aspects in contrast, they had the same purpose in their lives, they made many sacrifices to achieve the prosperity of their communities. Pocahontas was born in 1596 and her original name was “Amonute”. Consequently, her famous nickname “Pocahontas” was born because she liked to play all day and suddenly her father called her as “playful one”. At the beginning of her childhood she was living in her mother’s village, but when she turned …show more content…
Also, Pocahontas were who negotiated ethnicity, class, and gender roles in her new identity” (Townsend, pg. 291). The evidence provides the necessary content to understand that Pocahontas was the most influent Native America who with her many. According to the journal “Reflecting on Pocahontas”, the English people named her “princess”, because they made an imprecise inference that if their father was the leader of the tribe, he might be the king and her daughter the princess” (Tremblay, pg.121). The information support that Pocahontas was not a real princess and that surged a logic reason why people thought she was part of a