At the time she supposedly fell in love with Smith and prevented her father from ceremonially bashing in his head, the real Pocahontas was actually 12 years old. “And Smith was 27,” said ...

The tale of the legendary Pocahontas remains one of the most researched and well-documented instances of Native American ...

From late summer, 1613 through March, 1614, Pocahontas was under the keeping of Sir Thomas Dale. He made a choice to retain her with the failure of exchange negotiations with Powhatan. So at that ...

Silverman: If John Smith's account, written in the 1620s, can be believed, Pocahontas was at the center of her father's decision to spare his life and then to set him up as a cultural broker, as a ...

When Lynn Ripley walks around her farm overlooking the York River, she ignores the lush scenery and keeps her eyes to the ground. Her passion for spotting and collecting pottery shards, arrowheads ...

In this video segment adapted from NOVA, explore the popular story of how Pocahontas, a young Native American, fell in love with John Smith, an English colonist. When Smith was captured ...

Edward Norton learned that the real-life Pocahontas, the daughter of a 17th century Native American chief, ... The father, 55, and mother, 37, had five daughters aged 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10.

A bronze statue of Pocahontas’ father, Chief Powhatan, will be outside Waterworks Visual Arts Center for the next year. Brad Dountz/Salisbury Post.

“I have been told that I had great-great-grandparents who were black slaves; that I was a direct descendant of Pocahontas on my mother’s side; and that my father’s family was Dutch, Irish ...

A woman's habit of finding pottery shards and arrowheads on her farm has led to the discovery of what archaeologists believe was the village of the powerful Indian chief Powhatan, the father of ...