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

Clare encounters a statue of Pocahontas in Chapter Five. Pocahontas is the mythologized Indian heroine, who suppressed her native identity and later died of a disease never encountered by her race. From the text, we can infer that Clare sees herselfis in a similar situation, in the process of being corrupted and eventually losing her life to the disease of racism.