To most, Pocahontas is known as a heroine. She appears many times in legends, long-ago tales, and even starred in her own Disney Princess animation film. In nearly all, she is depicted as brave and fierce. So brave, in fact, that she saved the Englishman John Smith. However, if you look past the exaggerations of countless authors over time, passing along the tale like a telephone game, the truth is that she did not truly save him. Even the accounts of John Smith, the man who claimed to have been…
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