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.

In 1995, Disney introduced children everywhere to a Native American princess married 400 years ago today - Pocahontas ... "It is unfortunate that this sad story, which Euro-Americans should ...

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Pocahontas died several years later in March 1617 in Gravesend, England, while colonist John Rolfe died around March 1622, he added. But according to a 2007 book, The True Story of Pocahontas ...

But this engraving offers a sound estimate of Pocahontas's true appearance ... and still hotly debated, story of her "rescue" of John Smith. The engraving was published in Smith's Generall ...

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 ...