Based in 1607, Disney depicts Pocahontas as the stunning and free-spirited daughter of Chief Powhatan (voiced by Russell Means). Her tribe lives in what is now known as Virginia and works together ...

People are only just learning a Disney villain was based on a real person - and died one of the most horrific deaths ever.

It was the first of many depictions of Pocahontas intended to demonstrate that a Native American could adopt the demeanor of a "civilized" European. The Virginia Company—backers of the Jamestown ...

So which image is closer to the woman we know as Pocahontas? She was born Matoaka, in the mid-1590s, the daughter of Powhatan, who ruled a native empire in what is now eastern Virginia.

Pocahontas, a new 263- ft. (80.25-m), 500-passen-1 g e r / 7 0 - v e h i c l e ferry, was delivered to the Virginia Department of Transporta t i o n by Moss Point Marine, Inc., of the Trinity M a ...

Proposed plans are to widen the two-lane Route 60 (Pocahontas Trail) roadway into three lanes for access and safety improvements. The widening — from James City County Fire Station No. 2 to Magruder ...

As I leaf through the 1618 edition, another engraved portrait jumps out at me — a New World princess from Virginia. Though nobility radiates from her resolute eyes, Pocahontas couldn't be more ...

A musical fundraiser presented by the women of the Methodist Episcopal Church South of Cass, West Virginia, probably before ...