In Support of the title for Pocahontas as "Founding Mother of America"

• Pocahontas is a qualifying ancestor of the Colonial Dames of America

  • “It is significant in that Pocahontas is not only Virginia’s earliest qualifying female ancestor, she is perhaps, the NSCDA’s most famous”​

  • Colonial Dames Pocahontas Pin

• Pocahontas Memorial Association, founded in 1906 ahead of the 300th Jamestown anniversary in 1907 – New York Public Library

• Attempts to bring remains of Pocahontas back to America, first proposed during the Jamestown Exposition of 1907​

  • 1923 effort to find the remains of Pocahontas​

    • “Regarded as the mother of modern Americans” (3rd paragraph)​

    • “In 1909, the Home Secretary received a letter from the National Pocahontas Memorial Association, New York, whose directors included Theodore Roosevelt and Andrew Carnegie. They wanted a ‘magnificent memorial’ to her in Washington, with a crypt to house her remains, for which a search should be made. A warship from each country would escort them, which ‘would do more to bind the friendship existing between the two countries than any other event of the past century’. In the meantime stained glass windows commemorating Pocahontas were donated to St George’s Church by the Colonial Dames of America.”

• Katherine Calos Pocahontas article (Richmond Times Dispatch) – March 22, 2017

• Border Crossings – Remembering Pocahontas: A Ceremony (2017 / 6:28 minutes)

• Chief Anne Richardson – Rappahannock Indian Tribe

  • Mother of America​

  • Remembering Pocahontas

  • Virginia Currents – Gloucester Pocahontas Festival (2019 – 4.25 minutes)

  • Chief Anne Richardson and Rick Tatnall Commentary (2021)