The Virginia Company—backers of the Jamestown settlement—likely commissioned ... But this engraving offers a sound estimate of Pocahontas's true appearance. This widely exhibited oil painting ...

Though Pocahontas was a real person ... believe that without the aid of the Powhatan during this time, the Jamestown settlement would have failed. Despite the help, more continued to die from ...

The Park Service plans to shed light on pre-Colonial Indian society at the site where Pocahontas met John Smith. In December 1607, six months after the founding of the English settlement of Jamestown, ...

University of Alabama Press, 2006. Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony, The First Decade: 1607-1617. edited by Edward Wright Haile. RoundHouse Books, 1998.

From suspicion, to siege, to collaboration, to all out war - in this episode we uncover the complex reality of the Jamestown colonists ... figures like John Smith, Pocahontas, and John Rolfe ...