Edward Norton discovers he is a descendant of Pocahontas

In 1995, the world learned a version of the story of Pocahontas through the famous animation of disney. Last Tuesday, the 3rd, then, the actor Edward Norton discovered that, curiously, he is one of the descendants of the Native American born around the year 1594 and a member of the Powhatan people.

Famous for his roles in Fight Club and in the newly released Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mysterygives Netflix, norton participated in the premiere episode of the 9th season of the series Finding Your Roots. Launched in 2012, the documentary production seeks to present the “book of life” of several artists.

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That’s how, invited by the series, Edward Norton found out that Pocahontas is your 12th great-grandmother. During the program, the presenter Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed that, according to several studies, the lineage of norton goes back directly to the colonist John Rolfean Englishman who married the indigenous woman—not counting ancestors like a Civil War soldier and a former pro-union labor activist.

That’s as far as you can go unless [eu] it is [descendente de] a viking”, joked the actor. “It makes you realize that you are a small piece of all human history.”

In addition to discovering the identity of some of your oldest ancestors, norton still discovered that his third great-grandfather, John Winstead, once owned slaves, as revealed by the 1850 North Carolina census. “The short answer is these things are uncomfortable and you should be uncomfortable. It’s not a judgment on you and your own life, but it’s a judgment on the history of this country and it needs to be acknowledged first of all, and then it needs to be faced,” he said.

Daughter of the former chief of the Tsenacommacah tribe, Pocahontas was captured by British settlers in 1613, shortly after foreigners arrived in the territory where she lived, which would later become Jamestown, Virginia. Among the English, the indigenous woman married the tobacco planter John Rolf on the 5th of April, 1614 — and gave birth to the little thomas in January 1615.

“Shakespeare died in 1616, just to put the date in perspective,” explained Henry Louis Gates Jr., when commenting on the marriage of the indigenous woman with the British man, according to US Magazine. “Pocahontas died in March 1617, at Grave’s End, England, and John Rolfe died about March 1622.”