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 ...

Introduction: How to tell the story? -- Pocahontas : a favorite child -- Captain John Smith : an English chief -- Pocahontas : the Powhatan peace symbol -- Powhatan rule : not by force -- Danger in ...

Pocahontas saves the life of John Smith in this chromolithograph, credited to the New England Chromo. Lith. Company around 1870. The scene is idealized; there are no mountains in Tidewater Virginia, ...

The first American woman ever to settle in England was Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan, chief of the Chickahominy tribe. She moved there in 1616 with her husband John Rolfe and their son-Thomas.* But ...

The organization which owns this centuried structure, found at 41-05 Newtown Road amidst the trackless sands of Astoria, is a local Democratic club which boasts an influential and famous list of ...

Capt. John Smith and Chief Powhatan had historic encounters in Werowocomoco. Stan Fellows Trudging through swamp mud on a cold February day in 1608, Capt. John Smith and a small band of armed men ...

As the war clubs “hung heavily overhead,” Powhatan considered his favorite daughter’s request. Finally, he commanded his warriors to halt the execution. Pocahontas had given Smith a very precious ...

The corpulent visage of Henry VIII peers at me across the centuries from the pages of Baziliwlogia: A Booke of Kings. As I leaf through the 1618 edition, another engraved portrait jumps out at me — a ...