How Is Pocahontas Historically Accurate

Pocahontas is a very famous movie for its historical events and the romantic story it contains between the Indian princess, Pocahontas, and a colonist that migrated to Jamestown called John Smith. Although, the movie is very interesting and very attracting, the events contained in the movie were not accurate to its historical events. The movie does not accurately portray the exact historical events that took place, nor does it correctly convey the historical impact the events had on the history of America.
The movie begins with a scene that does not in particular show where it takes place originally which is in Virginia. The entire movie does not concentrate on the historical events and impacts, rather it looks at the impact that love has and how it brings the tribes together with …show more content…
About this historical period, the movie teaches the viewers that the relationship between the Native people and the colonists were based on the Natives being peaceful and living their simple lives whereas the colonists trying to come in and invade the land, kill those Natives living there already, and to gain wealth through gold mining. Now, this piece of information was not too inaccurate since the colonizers did invade the land for gold and got in war with the Natives to steal their land.
On the other hand, the movie shows the viewers the love story that goes on between Pocahontas and John Smith. The movie shows them falling in love at first sight which is incorrect, historically speaking. At the time Pocahontas met John Smith, she was around 10 years old while John Smith was in his late twenties. They were never in love. In fact, if any feelings then John Smith thought of Pocahontas as his daughter. He was old enough to be her father which making them not in a romantic