Who is Pocahontas from No Telephone to Heaven and what is their importance? No_Telephone_to_Heaven English & Literature Pocahontas | No Telephone to Heaven

In Chapter 5, Clare encounters a statue of Pocahontas, the mythologized Indian heroine who suppressed her native, true identity and eventually died of a disease never encountered by her race. There is the sense here that Clare is in a similar situation, in the process of being corrupted and eventually losing her life to the disease of racism.