John Smith claimed Pocahontas saved him from execution when she was just 11 or 12 years old. Whether the story happened the way Smith tells it—or even at all—is up for debate, a 2017 ...

Pushing past the Disney version of Pocahontas's life to get to the real story is "beyond exhausting". But for some, it's a matter of life and death. It's one of Disney's most beloved animated ...

Here we take a look at who the real Pocahontas was, a story of heartbreak ... the Native Americans was highlighted in the Disney song Savages – which as the Powhatan tribe prepared to defend ...

American actor Edward Norton has discovered that the real-life Pocahontas, the romanticized and mythologized 17th century daughter of a Native American chief, is his 12th great-grandmother.

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.