Pocahontas Was Never in Love With John Smith
The Disney animated movie portrays Pocahontas as an adult woman who falls in love with the English colonizer, John Smith. However, this can’t have happened in real life.
Captain John Smith. Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images
Pocahontas was merely a 9 or 10-year-old girl when John Smith went about ravaging her village. There is also reason to doubt John Smith’s account of Pocahontas bringing food to the European settlers. Apparently, Jamestown was too far away from the village (and was also divided by a huge river) to allow Pocahontas easy access to the settlement.