Gideon Gideon Gideon () or Gedeon, also named Jerubbaal, and Jerubbesheth, was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites are recounted in chapters 6 to 8 of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. Gideon was the son of Joash, from the Abiezrite clan in the tribe of Manasseh and lived in Ephra (Ophrah). As a leader of the Israelites, he won a decisive victory over a Midianite army despite a vast numerical disadvantage, leading a troop of 300 'valiant' men. The nineteenth-century Strong's Concordance derives the name "Jerubbaal" from "Baal will contend", in
The True Story of Pocahontas The True Story of Pocahontas The True Story of Pocahontas: the Other Side of History is a book written by Dr. Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow and Angela L. Daniel "Silver Star" for the purpose of publishing the oral history of the Mattaponi tribe and its contents regarding the story of Pocahontas and John Smith. The book is a collection of four hundred years of Mattaponi oral tradition passed down through the tribe’s "quiakros" (priests who dedicated their lives to learning). According to Mattaponi oral history, the story of Pocahontas is a love story between Pocahontas and her father, Wahunseneca (sometimes