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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

England's first successful colonists in America have been branded as rapists and murderers who imported slavery and oppressed the local Indian population. The controversial portrait of pioneer life in ...

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 ...

Edward Norton has discovered that Pocahontas is his 12th great-grandmother. This week, the 53-year-old actor appeared on the season nine premiere of Finding Your Roots, during which he learned that ...

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 ...