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He recalls: "…[A]t the minute of my execution, [Pocahontas] hazarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine; and not only that, but so prevailed with her father, that I was safely ...
The tale of the legendary Pocahontas remains one of the most researched and well-documented instances of Native American ...
Consider “Pocahontas.” Released in 1995 at a time when Walt Disney Animation Studios was experiencing a creative renaissance, “Pocahontas” pulls from history and legend to recount — sort ...
Activist Kiros Auld, who claims ancestry from the same Virginia tribe as Pocahontas, the Pamunkey indigenous group, is not a member of them according to reports and the group's former leader.
A bronze statue of Pocahontas’ father, Chief Powhatan, will be outside Waterworks Visual Arts Center for the next year. Brad Dountz/Salisbury Post.
pocahontas county, iowa — Looking out at a soybean field in Pocahontas County, the average person probably sees just that — beans. But to Tim Ricklefs, the field was his life.
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 ...
Pocahontas, in the final scene of the Disney re-creation, sends John Smith back to England and tells him, “No matter what happens, I’ll always be with you. Forever.” ...