Another accuracy was the location, as Chief Powhatan was the leader of the Powhatan Confederacy, in what is now the state of Virginia. The real-life John Smith was documented as one of the ...

The plot goes that Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves English adventurer John Smith from execution when British relations with the "savages" in the New World turned sour.

He was real, but not her boyfriend ... hoping to use her as a bargaining chip against Chief Powhatan. While kidnapped, Matoaka was converted to Christianity by her captors and then married ...