The Nova documentary, Pocahontas Revealed: Science Examines an American Legend is an insightful source in revealing the true history of the relationship between the English and the Native Americans in early Virginia. Because all the the facts were proved with the help of science, it adds validity and can confirm many facts and a majority of the information during that time. The documentary provided much insight on the relationship between the English and the Native Americans in early Virginia. I was very interested in some of the Native American traditions.…
In my opinion I think Pocahontas did save John Smith’s life. John Smith published a new version of True Relation. He wrote that Pocahontas risked her life to save his. John Smith expands his story in general history. The emperor welcomed John Smith with food and good words.…
George Percy 's article was a primary of the experiences and hardships the settlers had when they first landed in Jamestown, Virginia in 1609. In the Examination of Ann Foster, the woman Anne Foster, confesses to being a witch. The author is a witness to her confession, making it a primary source. The author is trying to create a scene in Oregon during the Salem Witch Trials, and he does this by writing about Anne Foster 's experiences.…
Blood on the River and the Disney movie Pocahontas are very similar because both have most of the same characters. Both also had arguments between each other but in the Disney movie Pocahontas near the end of the movie Pocahontas sacrificed herself for one of the main characters John Smith whenever her dad was going to kill him and Chief Powhatan made peace with the colonists. John Ratcliffe wasn’t happy with this agreement so he got a gun and aimed for Chief Powhatan, but John Smith sacrificed his life and got shot, he was immediately brought back to England by ship. In the book Blood on the River, the colonists and Native Americans did have arguments, and did fight and killed many people because the Native Americans felt that the colonists took their land and abused it, “They have robbed the Indians’ temples? Taken the jewels from the bodies of their dead werowances?…
Have you ever thought about who's that lady on the one dollar coin? Well surprising her name is Sacagawea. Sacagawea was the only lady on the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the western United States. She is proof that women are as important as men because she risked her life to go with just men. Without her Lewis and Clark would have probably never even survived the expedition.…
Jamestown, Virginia, an essential source of history about the United States in the early 1600’s. Pocahontas, a daughter of a powerful Indian leader, married an Englishman named John Rolfe and changed her name to Rebecca. She adopted English culture, and have a son together. Pocahontas brings peace between the English settlers and Powhatan confederation. In Kathleen Brown’s article, “Gender Frontier”, she underscores gender role and responsibility in both Native American and English settlers.…
The source is reliable because Dr. Henry A. Smith was at the speech when it took place. However, the source is not reliable because Smith could have made a mistake when taking notes and could have lied or stretched the truth to make the speech more popular.…
During the text John Smith tries to make himself seem brave and untouchable. He uses the third person part of view as his dialogue because is trying persuade the readers that he is heroic and powerful. Quotes like “.. Pocahontas with her attendants brought him so much provision that saved many of their lives, that else for all this had starved with hunger. ”show that the person who is responsible for the success of the colony was Pocahontas. John Smith had very poor thoughts on the Indians which is not a surprise because he is so full of himself.…
The Disney movie “ Pocahontas” was historically without a doubt would be accurate. Every detail in the movie was accurate just like when in the movie when John Smith “ look at this strange looking fella ” it was a raccoon he has never seen one before, so this was one of the very true facts. Also when Pocahontas and John Smith were good friends in the movie and in real life so that was a historical fact because of their friendship. In both the movie and in real life was when Europeans went straight to work to dig for gold and for the wealth. They wanted to be rich and a gentleman and not a commoner so they dug when the first reached land.…
Camilla Townsend’s book, “Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma,” describes the detailed story of Pocahontas’s life and how the various Natives lived in sixteenth century Virginia. The Natives lives were ultimately altered when English colonists arrived. The English had specific intentions in mind; colonize the area, become great merchant traders, and convert the Natives to Christianity. The colonists were willing to achieve these even if it meant overwhelming and destroying the Indian culture around them.…
She made many trips so she could show slaves that they didn’t have to be a slave all their life. She showed them the way and they depended on her not to get them caught and to lead them safely to freedom. She showed what it meant to be hero. Now heroes don’t always have to lead people because…
The inaccurate representation of historical events in Disney productions as erroneous as that of the film Pocahontas exemplifies why children should not be exposed to them; history does not always have a happily ever after and unfortunately that is exactly what Disney tried to achieve in the so-called “responsible, accurate, and respectful” (Text 3, line 3) recreation of Pocahontas’ story that Disney claims to have made. In A General History of Virginia, one reaches the conclusion that John Smith falsely portrayed the events of his time spent with the Native Americans, whom he calls “savages” (Text 1, line 75) and “barbarians” (Text 1, line 70), because he attempts to glorify himself even though his account of his captivity is completely inaccurate. His retelling, including when he claims Pocahontas “laid her own upon his to save him from death” (Text 1, line 131-132), in a complete contradiction to the accounts of others present at the time. Universally today, it is understood that words of the self-absorbed John Smith was written in an attempt to receive gratitude for his heroic actions against the Native Americans and is historically inaccurate.…
After exploring the various perspectives surrounding the story of John Smith and Pocahontas, I argue that Disney does not have a social responsibility in falsifying the history of the Powhatan Indians. I believe this to be true because cartoons are not meant to be depictions of real life events. For instance, Dr. Linwood “Little Bear” Custalow and Angela L. Daniel “Silver Star” write in The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History, “This provocative account of the life of Pocahontas challenges us and our notations of the ‘facts’ of history”(Custalow and Daniels 101). This supports my argument because the book is saying that it is challenging to get the whole truth of the story when all there is to prove it is the oral history. Disney…
Within the first chapter of the book “The True Story of Pocahontas” it doesn’t go into depth with how Pocahontas was born. Well the first chapter focus entirely on the background of to whom Pocahontas was born to and her role in the Powhatan tribes. During these times it was common for the chief of tribes to have several “wives”. However, it was not for love. Often or not a chief would have one wife he truly loved, but he would have children with other wives who belonged to different tribes to establish an alliance with a temporary marriage.…
In short, Pocahontas seemed attractive to John Smith and his companions because she presented herself without clothes, therefore grabbing Smith’s attention and leading to their intimate relationship. Unlike the Disney movie, Page portrays Pocahontas’ father, Powhatan, as a furtive and sneaky person who was trying to gain an advantage: “In fact, this was probably an act carefully planned and parts of a larger ceremony in which Powhatan was essentially adopting Smith so that he would be one of his district chiefs” (Page 160). Page insists that while John Smith himself believed that he was not punished by Powhatan for the crime (having a relationship with Pocahontas) because Pocahontas was begging for his life, Powhatan had the intention of using John Smith to his advantage. It’s interesting that a small portion of a chapter can already give me more knowledge than what most people know; the best part is that whenever the romanticized story of Pocahontas is mentioned, I can give the historically accurate version of it. In summary, this book taught me the one fact that will stay in my memory forever: the accurate relationship between John Smith, Pocahontas, and her…