The tale of the legendary Pocahontas remains one of the most researched and well-documented instances of Native American history. While historians have long dug into the life of Pocahontas, the 1995 ...

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 ...

This is the Disney animated tale of the romance between ... Her powerful father, Chief Powhatan (Russell Means), disapproves of their relationship and wants her to marry a native warrior.

In Disney’s cartoon version of the story ... hoping to use her as a bargaining chip against Chief Powhatan. While kidnapped, Matoaka was converted to Christianity by her captors and then ...