While historians have long dug into the life of Pocahontas, the 1995 Disney animated film based on her life brought the story to the lives of children everywhere, introducing them to a piece of ...

Many children in the 19th century, like those of today, learned some version of the Pocahontas legend in their history lessons. They also saw her depicted in storybooks such as The Royal ...

A statue of Matoaka, a.k.a. Pocahontas, in Virginia The English colonists thought the best way to convert the local people to their religion of Christianity was by taking their children and having ...

In 1995, Disney introduced children everywhere to a Native American princess married 400 years ago today - Pocahontas. The plot goes that Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan ...