John Smith, an early leader in Jamestown ... Nor is there a firm basis for the tale of Pocahontas saving the English captain from execution by flinging her body across his. The only source ...

In Disney's recent version of the Pocahontas story, as in countless iterations before it, John Smith appears as a dashing romantic hero, smitten by the Indian "princess." Their relationship ...

John Smith, whose veracity ... act of treachery, probably saving his life and ensuring the survival of the colony. He later wrote Queen Anne that Pocahontas "was . . . the instrument to preserve ...

Pocahontas was usually known as Matoaka, which means ‘the flower between two streams’. The English colonists, including John Smith ... and thought he was saving her soul by doing so.