Fille du chef de la grande tribu des Powhatans, Wahunsunacock, Pocahontas est née vers 1595 sous le nom de Matoaka, qui signifie « petite plume de neige ». Son surnom de Pocahontas lui vient de son ...

On March 21, 1617, a 21-year-old woman from Virginia’s Pamunkey tribe died at Gravesend, England. She went by many names—Matoaka, Amonute, and, at her passing, Rebecca—but she’s best remembered today ...

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 Smithsonian ...

The animated tale was both controversial and an Oscar-winning box office hit. It’s also one of the rare films from that era that the company isn’t eager to remake. By Brooks Barnes Brooks Barnes has ...

The broad strokes of Pocahontas’s biography are well known—unusually so for a 17th-century Indigenous woman. Yet her life has long been shrouded by misunderstandings and misinformation, and by the ...

Su verdadero nombre era Matoaka, y su apodo, Pokahantesú. Los ingleses la convirtieron en Pocahontas, que en lengua algonquina significa “Divertida”. Paradoja: muy poco de divertido tuvo su vida, ...

Who was Pocahontas, really? A new book examines the facts of her short but remarkable life. Dressed as an English gentlewoman in 17th-century London, Pocahontas was pressed into service as a human ...

Four hundred years ago this month, Pocahontas attended a masque in London along with King James I and Queen Anne. Lady Rebecca Rolfe, as she was also known, would be dead two months later, of ...

As the nation turns to elections in 2020, one person has emerged as the front-runner in the imagination of the electorate, if not in reality. I'm speaking, of course, about Pocahontas. Over 400 years ...