In 1995, Disney introduced children everywhere to a Native American princess married 400 years ago today - Pocahontas ... "It is unfortunate that this sad story, which Euro-Americans should ...

Pocahontas died several years later in March 1617 in Gravesend, England, while colonist John Rolfe died around March 1622, he added. But according to a 2007 book, The True Story of Pocahontas ...

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In Disney's recent version of the Pocahontas story, as in countless iterations before it, John Smith appears as a dashing romantic hero, smitten by the Indian "princess." Their relationship ...

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 ...

From the time of its first appearance, the story of Pocahontas has provided the terms of a flexible discourse that has been put to multiple, and at times contradictory, uses. Centering around her ...