John Smith claimed Pocahontas saved him from execution when she was just 11 or 12 years old. Whether the story happened the way Smith tells it—or even at all—is up for debate, a 2017 ...

Pulling together the real story of Pocahontas's life involves interpreting both the accounts of the English colonisers and the oral history passed down by her people. According to Blais ...

And while Pocahontas did exist, her real story has more to do with the MMIP crisis than falling in love with a settler. In fact, Disney's attempt to create a cartoon princess about “people ...

Disney has never confirmed that the real Ratcliffe and the Pocahontas villain are the same person, fans assumed that the Governor is probably an inspiration to the story. Much like Pocahontas ...

Names would often change as people grew older or ... told the settlers her name was Pocahontas (possibly her mother’s name) as she didn’t want to share her real name with them in case they ...

The real-life romantic partner of Pocahontas was a tobacco planter named ... Once in London, Pocahontas was reportedly presented to the white people as a “civilized savage.” ...

Christian Bale went on to play John Rolfe in Terrence Malick’s The New World, another fictionalised story focusing on Pocahontas ... relationship between the real person the stories are based ...

American actor Edward Norton has discovered that the real-life Pocahontas, the romanticized and mythologized 17th century daughter of a Native American chief, is his 12th great-grandmother.