The name Pocahontas has been used as a synonym in reference to a Native American woman, and recently, as what some see as an insult or even a slur. So, who was Pocahontas? Her short life and the ...

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 artist ...