The Real Story Of Pocahontas Is Much Darker Than The Disney Movie

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, saves English adventurer John Smith from execution when British relations with the "savages" in the New World turned sour. Pocahontas even starts a romance with Smith. They almost sail away to Britain together at the end of the film. History, however, tells a different and darker tale. To start, Pocahon...