In Disney's recent version ... known by the same name as their chief, Powhatan.] Q: According to John Smith's account of the famous event—when Pocahontas allegedly rescued him from execution ...

The inscription is also striking; it identifies her not as Pocahontas ... to the woman we know as Pocahontas? She was born Matoaka, in the mid-1590s, the daughter of Powhatan, who ruled a native ...

Pocahontas, sanctified in a white dress and kneeling like the Virgin Mary, renounces her Powhatan ways. In a pamphlet on his painting, Chapman noted that Jamestown's colonists did not "exterminate ...

This engraving of Pocahontas ... not Native American black; the intensity in the eyes has softened. Anyone trying to get a reasonable fix on the lady, somewhere between dry history and the Disney ...

In Disney’s cartoon version of the story (and elsewhere), Pocahontas is shown to be involved romantically with an Englishman called Captain John Smith. He was real, but not her boyfriend.

This is the Disney ... Pocahontas (Irene Bedard) and Captain John Smith (Mel Gibson), who journeyed to the New World with other settlers to begin fresh lives. Her powerful father, Chief Powhatan ...

Pocahontas lived only 21 years, but her impact was extraordinary. The Powhatan chief’s daughter befriended colonists, endured ...