LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The Princess Pocahontas Council gathered in full costume Thursday night for a final rehearsal ahead of this year’s pageant. Celebrating 45 years, the pageant honors Native ...

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 ...

Pocahontas is the most myth-encrusted figure in early America, a romantic “princess” who saves John Smith and the struggling Jamestown colony. But this fairy tale, familiar to millions today ...

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 ...

The movies 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 ...

Historians believe that the figure now more commonly called Pocahontas was born somewhere around 1596 in the part of America now known as Virginia. Her dad was a renowned Native American leader ...

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 ...