14K views · 142 reactions | Look past the fiction to discover the real story of Pocahontas, the princess who transformed the way Europeans saw Native Americans. Watch Pocahontas: Beyond the Myth, now playing on the Smithsonian Channel Plus app. https://bit.ly/2UsasBi #IWD2019 #BalanceforBetter | Smithsonian Channel | Facebook

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