Pocahontas Full Story While all of the previous princesses Disney created were based on public domain stories, Pocahontas aimed to create the first Disney princess out of a historical figure. Although Pocahontas was a real person, the version we know by Disney is really only loosely based on the original person mostly using the names, ethnicity, and geographic location from her tale; Disney took these elements of Pocahontas’s life and combined them with their storytelling techniques to bring us

The real story of Pocahontas is much more disturbing than you've been led to believe. Here, Native American women — including one of her descendants — explain the truth. | Mic