With Disney's release of the animated feature Pocahontas, a new incarnation of her is now familiar to a vast worldwide audience. Some critics have argued that Disney's "princess" is older than the ...

So ‘Pocahontas’ was actually born as Amonute, but was usually known as Matoaka which means ‘the flower between two streams’. In Disney’s cartoon version of the story (and elsewhere ...

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 ...

The Native American woman Pocahontas, who inspired the Disney movie, was captured by English colonists in what is now Virginia back in the early 1600s. She was then taken to London, but died at ...

It’s been a winding road riddled with controversies and viral moments that really put the sentiment of “all press is good press” to the test, but Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White is finally ...