Disney knew Pocahontas was young, but they wanted her to be 'sexy': Disney's Pocahontas isn't just offensive and historically inaccurate, but harmful. The Disney company consulted with historians yet ...
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 ...
Songs that examined climate change and the treatment of Native Americans defined Disney’s mid-90s classic. When Schwartz learned it was an adaptation of the legend of Pocahontas – the Native ...
The broad strokes of Pocahontas’s biography are well known—unusually so for a 17th-century Indigenous woman. Yet her life has long been shrouded by misunderstandings and misinformation ...
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 ...
This is the Disney animated tale of the romance between a young Native American woman named Pocahontas (Irene Bedard) and Captain John Smith (Mel Gibson), who journeyed to the New World with other ...
A Walt Disney animated film series based on a real historic character, based on the known history and also the folklore and legend that surround the Native American woman Pocahontas, and features ...
we toured a pair of “Aladdin” and “Pocahontas” Standard Inside Staterooms on the new Disney Treasure cruise ship. As suggested by the name, Inside Staterooms are on the inside walls of the ...
More than four decades later, Disney released a film focusing largely on myths surrounding Pocahontas. The character tries to fight off the assumptions from her white male friend that she’s an ...