Pocahontas (1995), a Walt Disney Company animated feature, one of the Disney Princess films, and the most well known adaptation of the Pocahontas story. The film presents a fictional romantic affair …

Most notably, Pocahontas has left an indelible impression that has endured for more than 400 years. And yet, many people who know her name do not know much about her. Pocahontas was born …

Pocahontas, Powhatan woman who fostered peace between English colonists and Native Americans by befriending the settlers at the Jamestown Colony in Virginia and eventually marrying one of them. …

Among the most famous women in early American history, Pocahontas is credited with helping the struggling English settlers survive.

Young Algonquian woman of the Powhatan nation who became famous for allegedly saving Captain John Smith 's life in the early days of the Jamestown colony and later as the wife of John Rolfe, the …

Feb 13, 2025 · An iconic figure in American history, Pocahontas is largely known for saving the life of the Jamestown colonist John Smith and then romancing him—although both events are unlikely to be true.

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.