So ‘Pocahontas’ was actually born as Amonute, but was usually known as Matoaka which means ‘the flower between two streams’. In Disney’s cartoon version of the story (and elsewhere ...

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 ...

With Disney's release of the animated feature Pocahontas, a new incarnation of her is now familiar to a vast worldwide audience. Some critics have argued that Disney's "princess" is older than the ...

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 ...

Walt Disney Imagineering shared a behind-the-scenes look at Cast Members putting the final touches on the Disney Treasure ...

In 1995, Disney introduced children everywhere to a Native American princess married 400 years ago today - Pocahontas. The plot goes that Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan ...

A Walt Disney animated film series based on a real historic character, based on the known history and also the folklore and legend that surround the Native American woman Pocahontas, and features ...

A Walt Disney animated film series based on a real historic character, based on the known history and also the folklore and legend that surround the Native American woman Pocahontas, and features ...