As the nation turns to elections in 2020, one person has emerged as the front-runner in the imagination of the electorate, if not in reality. I'm speaking, of course, about Pocahontas. Over 400 years ...

IN her new book, “Pocahontas,” Paula Gunn Allen tries to convey the spirit world of Native Americans by inviting the reader to inhabit it with her. A retired professor of English and American Indian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tale of the legendary Pocahontas remains one of the most researched and well-documented instances of Native American history.

Beloved of countless children’s books, toys and movies, Pocahontas is perhaps the world’s best-known American Indian despite having died four centuries ago. On Jamestown Island in present-day Virginia ...

In what is presented as the first study of its kind by an American Indian scholar, Allen (The Sacred Hoop) offers a corrective to the romantic story of Pocahontas told initially by Capt. John Smith of ...

John Pagano will tell you that Pocahontas is a part of our country’s foundation. As the historical interpretation supervisor at Henricus Historical Park in Chester, he manages the interpreters who ...