Be warned, spoilers are just ahead. 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 ...

Q: According to John Smith's account of the famous event—when Pocahontas allegedly rescued him from execution—her father, Powhatan, let Smith live but also expected something in exchange.

Altogether, she seems closer to an 18th-century European ideal of beauty than a 17th-century Powhatan Indian. If she had never been abducted and married into English culture, how would Pocahontas ...

We do know that Pocahontas was born Matoaka, the favored daughter of Powhatan, the powerful chief of the Powhatan Confederacy of Tidewater Algonquian tribes. "Pocahontas" is a pet name meaning ...

Only the intervention of Powhatan's young daughter Pocahontas, as the English explorer would dramatize the scene years later, had saved him from execution. This time, Smith was an invited guest at ...

I erected a life-size bronze statue at Waterworks Visual Art Gallery here in Salisbury. We have had plenty of positive ...

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

In an account published almost two decades after the event, Smith recounted how Powhatan’s men brought out two large stones, placed his head on them and prepared to “beat out his brains” with their ...

(WRIC) — Powhatan County Public Schools students traded in their pencils for chefs’ hats on Tuesday, March 18, during a live cooking competition. Hazel Long, a second grader at Pocahontas ...

Her powerful father, Chief Powhatan (Russell Means), disapproves ... hope to rob the Native Americans of their gold. Can Pocahontas' love for Smith save the day?

Two students from each elementary school — Powhatan Elementary School, Flat Rock Elementary School and Pocahontas Elementary School — were selected, so six students in total are competing.