Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 21, 1617, a 21-year-old woman from Virginia’s Pamunkey tribe died at Gravesend, England. She went by many names—Matoaka, ...

The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.

He most recently referred to the senator as "Pocahontas" at an event meant to honor surviving Native American code talkers. "Pocahontas" was the nickname of a teenage girl who was abducted by English ...

I had to take a minute to sort out how I felt about Senator Professor Warren’s gutsy speech Wednesday to the National Congress of American Indians. First of all, it’s so obviously an attempt to get a ...

In the film The New World, writer-director Terrence Malick deals with the meeting of John Smith and Pocahontas. Though historians dismiss the idea that the two were romantically linked, the new film, ...

American animated movies like Pocahontas often call on prolific voice actors to enhance the narrative. The 1995 Disney feature directed by Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg brought on a host of actors to ...

"Pocahontas" was the nickname of a teenage girl who was abducted by English colonists in 1613 and died at about the age of 21. Warren just released a DNA test that supports her claim of Native ...