To wrestle with Disney and its legacy -- the good and the bad, the past and the present -- the misfires sometimes offer as much insight as the masterworks. Consider "Pocahontas." Released in 1995 ...
In 1995, Disney introduced children everywhere to a Native American princess married 400 years ago today - Pocahontas. The plot goes that Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan ...
Pocahontas is universally known as the main character in the 1995 Disney movie of the same name, characterised as a young girl who fell in love with an Englishman despite her father’s disapproval.
So ‘Pocahontas’ was actually born as Amonute, but was usually known as Matoaka which means ‘the flower between two streams’. In Disney’s cartoon version of the story (and elsewhere ...
Pocahontas has been elevated to a household name by colonial legends and a more recent Disney adaptation that tells her story. A lesser-known fact from the life of Matoaka — Pocahontas was just ...