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 ...

Disney’s “Pocahontas” received a drumming for not presenting the true story of the Indian princess. But the Pocahontas biography that ran Monday on the Arts & Entertainment channel doesn’t set the ...

Edward Norton learned about his family's relation to Pocahontas on PBS show Finding Your Roots Actor Edward Norton had grown up hearing tales of his family's relation to Native American heroine ...

Seventeenth century mercantilist economics is based on "translating": foreign wealth changes meaning or value in becoming domestic property. The Pocahontas story manipulates biographical evidence to ...