I personally read the Pochonatas story myself by Helen Roundtree. As we were discussing the story on Thursday, I felt that a important fact was left out. I must admit, yes i did watch, "The NewWorld" and watching Disneys' pochontas made me think that she was a grown woman. But in this article she is only 10 years old. I was blown away, what would make people think a 10 year old and grown man could have a romantic relationship? But anyways,this article put that impression to rest.
Also hearing about the "one drop rule" was news to me also. Virginians made Pochonatas a "princess" so that they could call themselves official "royalty" and thats only why Anglo's could accepts Natives as being apart of Royalty?
Heres a video about the "true story" of Pochontas. Whats really true?
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Thanks for posting the video; very informative. Without any other research into the topic, I would guess that the poison theory is false. These trips to the Americas were very expensive and needed the funding of King and Queens. Why would someone assassinate a person who appeared to be a great ambassador? Jealousy perhaps?
As we have learned with the smallpox example, Indigenous Peoples had little immunity to the various European diseases. I would think Pocahontas suffered the same fate as many other natives.
The video was very good and I am ashamed to say that I have never seen either the New World movie or the Disney version. I guess that may not be a bad thing since Tai stated that the New World was not very good and may have given me a lot of false information to go on. I did not find it very surprising though that Pocahontas was so young. Historically, it was very common for girls to become romantically involved and married by their early teens. Of course, life expectancy was much shorter and many girls did not have access to the level of education that they have now. This is not referring to Native American culture as I am just beginning to learn more about that. However, I have been doing some research on women's history and that is something I came across. It is interesting that history is so often rewritten to create a love story where there clearly was not one. Thanks for the video!
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