On March 21, 1617, a 21-year-old woman from Virginia’s Pamunkey tribe died at Gravesend, England. She went by many names—Matoaka, Amonute, and, at her passing, Rebecca—but she’s best remembered today ...

Singer Wayne Newton, who has made a career of his Las Vegas nightclub acts, visited Jamestown recently and expressed the hope in a TV interview that the body of Pocahontas could be brought from ...

AN English town right on the River Thames has an unusual link to an iconic Disney princess. Gravesend, in Kent, is a commuter town thanks to its fast trains to London taking less than 25 minutes. It ...

When Peggy Coleman was growing up in Tilbury, England, 22 miles east of London, she often heard people talk about the Indian princess. They said she had come from across the sea, died and been buried ...

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The Walt Disney company is to spend $14,260 on floodlighting the British church where the star of its latest cartoon hit, American Indian Princess Pocahontas, was buried. Pocahontas died in 1617 in ...