In Disney's recent version of the Pocahontas story, as in countless iterations before it, John Smith appears as a dashing romantic hero, smitten by the Indian "princess." Their relationship ...
The 1995 animated film "Pocahontas" was one of the hit Disney movies of the '90s during the period known as the Disney ...
Pocahontas was usually known as Matoaka, which means ‘the flower between two streams’. The English colonists, including John Smith ... and thought he was saving her soul by doing so.
The plot goes that Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves English adventurer John ... saving his life. But in his book, "General Historie of Virginia," published in 1624 ...