My favorite Disney princess movie will forever be Beauty ... American princess and her relationship with English soldier John Smith and the settlers who arrived with him. This movie was released ...

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 ...

In 1995, we had our next Disney princess with the release of the movie Pocahontas. The movie: Pocahontas, a young Native American woman, falls in love with a European settler named John Smith.

Some critics have argued that Disney's "princess" is older than the Powahatan girl John Smith would have encountered, that the romance between them is fanciful, and that the depiction of her ...