[Editor's Note: The Indian people the Jamestown colonists encountered were known by the same name as their chief, Powhatan.] Q: According to John Smith's account of the famous event—when ...

The Park Service plans to shed light on pre-Colonial Indian society at the site where Pocahontas met John Smith ... think Smith misinterpreted what they suspect was an initiation rite. Richardson, the ...

The plot goes that Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves English adventurer John Smith from execution ... was taken prisoner at age 17 while on a social visit to the ...

and Captain John Smith (Mel Gibson), who journeyed to the New World with other settlers to begin fresh lives. Her powerful father, Chief Powhatan (Russell Means), disapproves of their relationship ...