The tale of the legendary Pocahontas remains one of the most researched and well-documented instances of Native American history. While historians have long dug into the life of Pocahontas, the ...

The Werowocomoco Research Project is a collaborative effort by archeologists, historians, and Virginia Indian communities to research a site that was once a major settlement of the Powhatan chiefdom.

The broad strokes of Pocahontas’s biography are well known—unusually so for a 17th-century Indigenous woman. Yet her life has long been shrouded by misunderstandings and misinformation, and by ...