The broad strokes of Pocahontas’s biography are well known—unusually so for a 17th-century Indigenous woman. Yet her life has long been shrouded by misunderstandings and misinformation ...

Historians believe that the figure now more commonly called Pocahontas was born somewhere around 1596 in the part of America now known as Virginia. Her dad was a renowned Native American leader ...

Edward Norton learned about his family's relation to Pocahontas on PBS show Finding Your Roots Actor Edward Norton had grown up hearing tales of his family's relation to Native American heroine ...