Except for the courage of Pocahontas, the English settlers at Jamestown in the early 17th century would have died from starvation and exposure. Her brave intervention saved the settlers’ lives and ...

In mid-1607, she was a 12-year-old Indian girl who cartwheeled naked through the fort at Jamestown. By year’s end, she’d become the princess who cradled Capt. John Smith’s head in her arms, saving 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 ...