Pocahontas Isn’t Based On Facts
Pocahontas is a Disney animated film that presents Pocahontas as a beautiful young woman who falls in love with a settler named John Smith. When an adult John Smith arrived in Pocahontas’ tribe, she was just eleven years old.
She had no love sentiments for John, but she did marry John Rolfe, another colonist. Rolfe kidnapped her, returned her to England, and renamed her Rebecca. It isn’t quite a fairytale.