We all think we know Pocahontas, but her real story is very different from the popular image. Pocahontas was an extremely ...

It’s so nice to be needed even after you’re dead. That’s what I was thinking during the rehearsal dinner for Pocahontas and John Rolfe at the Williamsburg Lodge, off Route 60 in Virginia. Actors play ...

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 ...

KIM MASTERS reporting: There is plenty of disagreement and very little source material on the true story of Pocahontas, but it is believed that in 1607, when she first encountered Englishman John ...

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 ...

A statue of Pocahontas stands at a meeting of footpaths on Jamestown Island; she can be approached from many different directions. Her bronze hands are burnished gold by 92 years of tourists reaching ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the spring of 1616, John and Rebecca Rolfe (better known to the world today as Pocahontas) left Virginia for England — a voyage from which she would never return. Whether you first learned of ...

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