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 ...

This engraving is the only known portrait of Pocahontas rendered ... Some critics have argued that Disney's "princess" is older than the Powahatan girl John Smith would have encountered, that ...

In Disney’s cartoon version of the story (and elsewhere), Pocahontas is shown to be involved romantically with an Englishman called Captain John Smith. He was real, but not her boyfriend.