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
