When Holly Johnson pictures Pocahontas, she sees Disney’s animated version from the 1995 film — long black hair, small tan dress and a red tattoo wrapped around her upper arm. But as the 13-year-old ...

The Jamestown Settlement will offer a fresh take on a historic figure in the “Pocahontas Imagined” special exhibit, which runs Saturday through Jan. 28. The exhibit will highlight the different and ...

With the animated Disney movie Pocahontas opening across the nation Friday, young fans have discovered the re-created historic settlement where the Indian princess lived and loved. Historical ...

"Far from being a side note to the story of American history, she was in fact the hero of the tale" We all think we know Pocahontas, but her real story is very different from the popular image.

“Were it but for the gaining of this one soul, I will think my time, toils and present stay well spent,” said Sir Thomas Dale, governor of the Virginia Colony, at baptism of Pocahontas in 1612. In ...

She has the saintly glow of Joan of Arc, the enigmatic aura of the Mona Lisa and more personas than Madonna. In her 22 years, Pocahontas left a legacy that endures in history texts, in stone relief at ...

SHE HAS the saintly glow of Joan of Arc, the enigmatic aura of the Mona Lisa and more personas than Madonna. In her 22 years, Pocahontas left a legacy that endures in history texts, in stone relief at ...

On March 21, 1617, a 21-year-old woman from Virginia’s Pamunkey tribe died at Gravesend, England. She went by many names—Matoaka, Amonute, and, at her passing, Rebecca—but she’s best remembered today ...