A Native American activist who claims ancestry from the same Virginia tribe as Pocahontas, the Pamunkey indigenous group, is ...

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 ...

The tale of the legendary Pocahontas remains one of the most researched and well-documented instances of Native American history. While historians have long dug into the life of Pocahontas ...

Pocahontas Redefined How Europeans Saw Native Americans Prior to the arrival of Pocahontas in England, indigenous people of the Americas were viewed as cannibals, brutish, and non-Christian. Enter ...

Historians believe that the figure now more commonly called Pocahontas was born somewhere around 1596 in the part of America now known as Virginia. Her dad was a renowned Native American leader ...

This engraving of Pocahontas is the only known life portrait ... The hair is European brown not Native American black; the intensity in the eyes has softened. Anyone trying to get a reasonable ...

And the reasons for this being are the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry.” The song is named after Pocahontas, the Native American girl who—according to legend—saved ...

One of eleven children, Edith claimed a lineage of southern aristocracy extending back to Pocahontas, the 17th century Native American woman who married into the English settlement at Jamestown.

This is the Disney animated tale of the romance between a young Native American woman named Pocahontas (Irene Bedard) and Captain John Smith (Mel Gibson), who journeyed to the New World with other ...

Cherokee writer and audio journalist Rebecca Nagel’s recently published book “By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long ...

In 1995, Disney introduced children everywhere to a Native American princess married 400 years ago today - Pocahontas. The plot goes that Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan ...

Follow Pocahontas the Native American Princess as she travels to spread her message of peace and unity among men in this high quality entertaining animated feature ...