In Disney's recent version of the Pocahontas story, as in countless iterations before it, John Smith appears as a dashing romantic hero, smitten by the Indian "princess." Their relationship ...

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According to legend, Pocahontas threw herself between the leader of the Jamestown colony, John Smith, and a warrior's club to save him. But experts have some doubts about whether she was even present.

Between unconscionable alterations of the story and inaccurate portrayals, Disney's Pocahontas remains one of their most ...

Captain Christopher Newport leads three ships carrying 105 male settlers across the Atlantic. In May, they establish Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Paspahegh ...

Pocahontas is the most myth-encrusted figure in early America, a romantic “princess” who saves John Smith and the struggling Jamestown colony. But this fairy tale, familiar to millions today ...

Disney Dreamlight Valley players discuss Pocahontas' potential addition to the life sim and what it would mean for indigenous ...

John Smith from execution, romanticized in eternal stone relief in the U.S. Capitol. Their celebrated love affair probably never happened, either. We do know that Pocahontas was born Matoaka ...

The real-life John Smith was documented as one of the settlers to Virginia who was befriended by Pocahontas. She reportedly ...

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.

It features Pocahontas, John Smith, Meeko, Flit, and Grandmother Willow. They are in a cloud of sparkly gold with autumn ...