Pocahontas

The movie Pocahontas is many young children’s only source of knowledge about Native American culture and history. This wouldn’t be bad, if only the movie didn’t change history in order to make it more fun. Pocahontas is historically inaccurate, down to the point where it doesn’t even portray names and people correctly. Compared to primary sources, Pocahontas is just as real as Frozen. Besides the personification of animals and trees, Pocahontas has many issues pertaining to it’s storyline. One…

In 1995, The Walt Disney Company released an animated movie based on the story of Pocahontas, the daughter of the Powhatan tribe’s chief. Set in 17th century Virginia, free-spirited Pocahontas saves English explorer John Smith’s life from execution, and consequently, both embark on a tale of forbidden romance. True to the advertisement, 2 completely different worlds (the Native Americans and the greedy English) were brought together by the pair, and they narrowly avoid a costly war over land.…

when, due to certain circumstances somebody is “captured” by colonialists. In our case, “Pocahontas was captured by Captain Samuel Argall and there is a need for her to find a way to live in two different cultures”(Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend). Being married to John Rolfe means that, despite certain difficulties “strong love surely existed”, a lot of facts in history tell us about this phenomenon. Pocahontas is a strong woman who coexists with her internal feelings and reality that forces…

When one thinks of the name “Pocahontas”, most think of the animated movie by Disney; however, this film is extremely estranged from the real life of Pocahontas. Pocahontas herself has not made it easy for us to find the truth, though, as it seems like she has never written anything on her life or experiences. Either that, or no such writings have survived the times. Therefore, most stories of Pocahontas have passed through spoken word, making the story vary from person to person. What is…

because of the fact that not everything was not documented in the past. Many things we learn from history are stories passed down from ancestors. Pocahontas is one of the many people in history whose story was not documented, but it was passed down mostly verbally. Pocahontas is a story of a young Indian girl whose tribe makes peace with English voyagers. Pocahontas marries an Englishman, after being kidnapped and then finds a new life with him in Britain. There are many differences between the…

This is the case with the 1995 Disney movie, Pocahontas. The very famous Disney movie, Pocahontas, shows lies about the life of Pocahontas that people soon believe as the truth. With using censorship in this movie, Disney builds a dramatized and flawed history of Pocahontas and illustrates a fake reality of who Pocahontas was. In the Disney movie, Pocahontas is a beautiful young adult with courage and interest in new things the world has to offer. Pocahontas soon meets a very attractive…

professor of history at Colgate University, wrote Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma which was published in 2004. The book is an account of Pocahontas’s life which has been dramatized through publications and movies. However, many myths exist surrounding her life. It is written chronologically and primarily covers the period from 1607 to 1622. In preparation Townsend read all relevant seventeenth century documents and stated a brave woman like Pocahontas deserves better. Respect should be…

production, which is targeted towards younger viewers. In the movie Pocahontas, British settlers sailed to the New World in the ship Susan Constant, in search for rumored gold and riches in Virginia, 1607. On the rigorous journey overseas, they lost many men during a violent storm. When they arrived, they immediately began their search for gold. Captain John Smith, an honored member of the council sent to set up Jamestown, met Pocahontas, the daughter of the Powhatan chief, for the first time…

Pocahontas was a very, well known Indian woman who helped in countless aspects. Her birth name was Matoaka, but she was also called Amonute, and later known as Rebecca Rolfe throughout her life. Everybody gave her the nickname or Indian name of Pocahontas, and she has stuck with that name forever. The name Pocahontas was only used in casual or family ways throughout her childhood. This name was only a nickname, which in Algonquinroughly translated to “little woman”. This meant a playful, merry…

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…