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 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 ...

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 ...

Pocahontas has been elevated to a household name by colonial legends and a more recent Disney adaptation that tells her story. A lesser-known fact from the life of Matoaka — Pocahontas was just ...