1. This historic moment with Pocahontas and Capt.

2. The persistent notion of a love affair between Pocahontas and Smith owes much to Smith's own pose as a man of irresistible appeal.

3. In reality, Pocahontas was only about 10 years old when Smith arrived with the Virginia Company in 1607; she later considered him somewhat of a father figure but never a romantic interest.

4. Some erroneously believed Pocahontas was romantically linked to Captain John Smith, most likely due to the Disney film inspired by her life.

5. In 1608, Pocahontas helped negotiate the return of Powhatan prisoners held by the colonists. Pocahontas was only about 12 years old when she did this!

6. Peace came when Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan, married John Rolfe, a tobacco farmer in Jamestown.

7. Pocahontas was eventually abducted by the English when renewed hostilities broke out, during which time she met Rolfe, married him and converted.

8. She replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented.

9. Pocahontas has since had a mixed legacy, having been portrayed as everything from the mother of a nation to betrayer of her people.

10. Another story describes how the Native American princess Pocahontas saved the life of John Smith, the leader in Jamestown, when her father, Powhatan, wanted to kill him.

11. "Pocahontas was not romantically involved with John Smith, " said John Mohawk, the director of indigenous studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

12. The exchange never took place. Pocahontas was taken to the settlement at Henrico where she learned English, converted to Christianity, was baptized and christened Rebecca.

13. Have you seen the animated film "Pocahontas"?It tells the story of the daughter of Powhatan, the most powerful Indian chief of coastal Virginia in the early 1600s.

14. Photo: A historic portrait of Pocahontas in London, age 21, dressed as the Christian lady she had become.

15. In April 1614 Pocahontas married the planter John Rolfe with Powhatan's approval.

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16. "Pocahontas, as the child of her father, would have had more of an authoritative role in converting someone from his original existence as an Englishman," said Ms.

17. "Pocahontas, as the child of her father, would have had more of an authoritative role in converting someone from his original existence as an Englishman, " said Ms. Green.

18. "The Far Horizons" is set about 200 years after "Pocahontas," but it's just as inaccurate.

19. In fact, many scholars believe Smith's claims that Pocahontas saved his life after he was captured by the Powhatans to also be myth.

20. In his precarious state he became a friend of Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan.

21. One woman, of white Southern background, said her family believed they were related to Pocahontas.

22. Disney thought it deserved a pat on the back when it released Pocahontas in 1995.

23. He composed a long, laborious letter to Governor Dale asking for permission to marry Pocahontas.

24. Away up in the heart of the Allegheny mountains, in Pocahontas county, West Virginia, is a beautiful little valley through which flows the east fork of the Greenbrier river.

25. Most people know him today, if they know him at all, as the man who married Pocahontas, the "Indian princess" in countless romantic stories.

26. Algonquian leader who founded the Powhatan confederacy and maintained peaceful relations with English colonists after the marriage of his daughter Pocahontas to John Rolfe(1614).

27. Her eventual trip to England with Rolfe and their newborn son proved a fund-raising boon to the colony, with Pocahontas serving as a kind of poster girl for the Virginia Company.