When Peggy Coleman was growing up in Tilbury, England, 22 miles east of London, she often heard people talk about the Indian princess. They said she had come from across the sea, died and been buried ...

Set in Colonial America, Pocahontas has become a story of historical value known and loved internationally, among children of all ages. The film tells the story of the first English settlers in ...

Our Flick of the Week is “Pocahontas,” the surprisingly serious, thoughtful and beautifully drawn Disney animated feature about the American birthright of exploitation and racism. If you see the movie ...

A once powerful Native American tribe whose most famous member inspired the hit 1995 Disney movie Pocahontas has finally been given formal recognition by the American government. Despite them having ...

The title character of the animated Disney film was a Powhatan woman who found herself caught up in tensions between Native Americans and English colonists. According to legend, she convinced her ...

It should be no surprise that Disney’s adaptation of the story of Pocahontas is quite sterilized from the true events that inspired it. The biggest fact changed in this film that dramatically alters ...