John Rolfe - and she and Smith sail away to Britain together at the end of the film. History, however, tells a different and darker tale. To start, Pocahontas was just a nickname, meaning "the ...

It is thought she told the settlers her name was Pocahontas (possibly her mother’s name) as she didn’t want to share her real name with ... and then married John Rolfe. He had agonised over ...

During her captivity at Jamestown, Pocahontas falls in love with an English settler, John Rolfe. Was this coincidence or was it strategy? It's hard to know. What we do know is that the marriage ...