Secondly, Europeans appealed to their own ethnocentric imaginations by portraying Pocahontas as an intermediary between the two civilizations of English settlers and Indians. The most popular portrayal of Pocahontas comes through the Disney movie, where she rescues John Smith, therefore joining the Indians and English together as one people. Although there is some truth behind the story of her interacting with the English, European explorers and writers used their ethnocentric imaginations, expanding the story to make her a hero who brought the two civilizations peacefully together. This woman the English have made out to be Pocahontas, was most likely many different women who all helped the settlers by showing them how to grow and prepare
