The tale of the legendary Pocahontas remains one of the most researched and well-documented instances of Native American ...

Christy Emmanuel can trace one family line to 1234. Those who followed are tied to U.S. history and now chronicled in a two-volume book by Emmanuel.

My Pocahontas book, for example, came out in 2004. Another historian wrote a serious segment about her that said much the same as I did, just with less detail, in 2001.

“Pocahontas,” for instance, “marked a new turn in Disney storytelling toward empowered heroines,” said Mindy Johnson, an animation scholar whose books include “Ink & Paint: The Women of ...