Pocahontas, also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe, was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of what is today the United States' state of Virginia.

Source: Wikipedia