John Smith claimed Pocahontas saved him from execution when she was just 11 or 12 years old. ... In real life, Pocahontas was a member of the Pamunkey tribe in Virginia.

The tale of the legendary Pocahontas remains one of the most researched and well-documented instances of Native American ...

American actor Edward Norton has discovered that the real-life Pocahontas, the romanticized and mythologized 17th century daughter of a Native American chief, is his 12th great-grandmother.

Most of the Disney movie, in which a "hyper-sexualised" Pocahontas "falls in love with John Smith and eventually is willing to give up her culture", is "completely historically inaccurate", Blais ...

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.

Pocahontas eased relations between Indians and colonists by marrying widower John Rolfe, the founder of English tobacco-growing in Virginia. An able student of English, she was baptized and took ...

American actor Edward Norton has discovered that the real-life Pocahontas, the romanticized and mythologized 17th century daughter of a Native American chief, is his 12th great-grandmother.