The real-life romantic partner of Pocahontas was a tobacco planter named ... presented to the white people as a “civilized savage.” Even before they wed, Rolfe wrote to the Virginia governor ...

She retains the chaste, high-necked Jacobian costume of the engraving (which may have covered the real Pocahontas's tattoos ... Christianity among the heathen savages." A decade after the ...

The plot goes that Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves English adventurer John Smith from execution when British relations with the "savages" in the New World turned sour.

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.