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.

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 ...

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 ...

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