She retaliates by putting a curse on the baby princess ... Released in 1995, Pocahontas was the first Disney princess based ...

This engraving is the only known portrait of Pocahontas rendered from life. During her stay in England, Dutch engraver Simon van de Passe captured her likeness and recorded that she, like the ...

Princess Mononoke' and Disney’s 'Pocahontas' explore similar themes of nature, conflict, and human impact on the environment. However, 'Princess Mononoke' offers a deeper, more complex look at ...

As I leaf through the 1618 edition, another engraved portrait jumps out at me — a New World princess from Virginia. Though nobility radiates from her resolute eyes, Pocahontas couldn't be more ...

Pocahontas is the most myth-encrusted figure in early America, a romantic “princess” who saves John ... But contrary to her depiction in films by Disney and others, Pocahontas wasn’t a ...

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 ...

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 ...