Though we know that the real-life Pocahontas had a relationship with Smith, these events have been debated, which makes the film only loosely based on the actual story. The actual Pocahontas was ...

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

It is thought she told the settlers her name was Pocahontas (possibly her mother’s name) as she didn’t want to share her real name with ... Like much of her life, reports vary as to the ...

The debate continues about whether "Pocahontas" truly saved John Smith, but we do know she never married him, as the film implies. She instead spent her short life, which ended in tragedy ...

The broad strokes of Pocahontas’s biography are well known—unusually so for a 17th-century Indigenous woman. Yet her life has long been shrouded by misunderstandings and misinformation ...

but her real-life history is far more complex and intertwined with the colonial impact on Native American communities. Trump's use of the nickname 'Pocahontas' stems from Warren's previous claims ...