Pocahontas
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Pocahontas was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Wahunsenacawh, the Mam
Pocahontas saves the life of John Smith in this chromolithograph, credited to the New England Chromo. Lith. Company around 1870. The scene is idealized; there are no mountains in Tidewater, Virginia, for example, and the Powhatans lived in thatched houses rather than tipis.
The abduction of Pocahontas (1624) by Johann Theodor de Bry, depicting a full narrative. Starting in the lower left, Pocahontas (center) is deceived by weroance Iopassus, who holds a copper kettle as bait, and his wife, who pretends to cry. At center right, Pocahontas is put on the boat and feasted. In the background, the action moves from the Potomac to the York River, where negotiations fail to trade a hostage and the colonists attack and burn a Native village.
Statue of Pocahontas outside St George's Church, Gravesend, Kent, where she was buried in a grave now lost
Pocahontas commemorative postage stamp of 1907
Pocahontas (1995 film)
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Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical historical drama film loosely based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English settlers from the Virginia Company. It was direct
Pocahontas
…engraving. About 8 million were issued. Pocahontas had renewed popularity within the media after the release of the 1995 Disney animated children's film Pocahontas., in which, she is depicted as a "noble, romantic savage–an innocent, one with nature, and inherently good" person, despite her being a Native woman…
Theatrical release poster
Jeffrey Katzenberg hoped that Pocahontas would be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Tom Sito served as the story supervisor.
Mel Gibson provided the singing and speaking voices of John Smith.