Silverman: If John Smith's account, written in the 1620s, can be believed, Pocahontas was at the center of her father's decision to spare his life and then to set him up as a cultural broker ...

Pocahontas is the most myth-encrusted figure in early America, a romantic “princess” who saves John Smith and the struggling ... brief and ultimately tragic life. The startling artwork ...

The real-life John Smith was documented as one of the settlers to Virginia who was befriended by Pocahontas. She reportedly ...