Pocahontas John Smith Beloved Woman

Pocahontas’ story has been changed throughout history. Her story has been subverted because people wanted to make it more interesting so that they could make more money and fame of off it. Townsend explains the choices that Pocahontas and her father made as well as the trajectory of her life by using other people’s accounts of her and how they perceived her. There were no documents recorded from Pocahontas.

One of the things Pocahontas is most known for saving John Smith’s life. It all started when one day, the Pamunkey tribe caught a white man. The man was to be presented to Pocahontas’ father, Chief Powhatan, that night. The village prepared large feasts, and Pocahontas was thrilled to finally get the chance to see one of the mysterious outsiders who had come to their homeland. When the man was finally brought out, many villagers screamed in horror when he glanced at them, although Pocahontas didn’t understand why everyone was afraid of this man to be called “John Smith”. Pocahontas’ father declared that the handsome man with the blue eyes was to be killed! The toughest warrior poised his arms above his head with a club in hand and… Pocahontas

Disney’s Pocahontas is a great movie, but is it historically correct? Well the answer is both yes and no. There are similarities between the history of it and movie, but there’s also differences. Why don 't I tell you about them.

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From the text and documents provided, my conclusion to whether or not Pocahontas saved John Smith is that it never happened. We know from the first account about his journey to Jamestown that he indeed was there, so he was a primary source. Pieces of information I have used to make my conclusion are the two accounts of John Smith, historian Lemay's document about his opinion, and expert Lewis' interpretations about the event.

Pocahontas was born in 1595, with the given name of Matoaka and later got the nickname Pocahontas. She has been known as the favorite daughter of the powerful Powhatan Chief but she is also famous in history for contributing greatly toward the survival of the Jamestown colony. When the English colonists settled in Jamestown in 1607, there became tension between the Colonists and the Powhatan Indians. During the 1600s, the leader of the Colonists, Captain John Smith was caught by the Powhatan’s men. It has been said that Pocahontas saved Smith’s life and has had great influence on early relationships between the colonists and Indians. During Pocahontas’s life, she has faced many tragedies but triumphs have also played a role in her time.

[1] Disney’s Pocahontas has understandably received a lot of flak about the historically inaccurate story that is told about the legendary Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. There is a good reason for that. The movie does little that can be construed as historically accurate, yet Disney claims that was never their intent. Disney, in their previous movies, has been attacked for being racist and unsympathetic to racial minorities. Their answer was a movie whose sole purpose, as stated by Disney, was to promote racial tolerance. The question is, then can a movie promote racial tolerance when the issue is built on false history, history that if told accurately would depict the exact opposite?

You would assume that Pocahontas possessed those qualities based on the movie, and you can gather from John Smith's letter that she did in real life as well. I agree with his depiction of Pocahontas, as her actions prove her to be an outstanding woman. Her bravery and virtue is highlighted by this excerpt from John Smith's letter, "...and with watered eyes gave me intelligence, with her best advice to escape his fury, which had he known, he has surely slain her." An issue that I found in John Smith's letter is the claim that Pocahontas saved him from being executed. I thought nothing of this while actually reading the text, but after watching the YouTube video titled "Pocahontas:The Truth - VOA Story," I questioned his claim. It is said in the video that historians do not believe that his life was ever in real danger. An anthropologist in the video, Angela Daniel, who worked on a book about Pocahontas, says that John Smith was rather being put through a chief ritual. She also goes on to say that John Smith makes no mention of being saved by Pocahontas in his first writing. While I cannot exactly disagree with him, this does make the validity of his claim

Pocahontas was mainly known for saving the life of John Smith. John Smith and his men arrived in Virginia and ran into the Tsenacommacah Indians many times. In 1607, a Native American hunting party captured Smith and took him back to Powhatan’s home. In Smith’s journal, he stated that Pocahontas was doing everything in her power to stop the execution and even almost sacrificed her own life to save Smith. By committing such a brave and

A quote from the website called (¨Pocahontas Leadership and Legacy¨), it is said that, ¨She had preferred to live with the English and kept her new found faith breaking barriers on religious freedoms.¨ This is a legacy of Pocahontas because her name meant ¨playful one¨ or ¨naughty child¨ and she always wanted adventure and exploration. As said in the website called (¨Pocahontas Leadership and Legacy¨), it says, ¨She, in her efforts broke down walls of religious freedoms, and interracial inequality all while changing the demographic of stereotypes early settlers had on native Americans. Which led to enriching our country financially, ethically, and socially directly affecting the prosperity of our county as we know it.¨ This is a legacy of Pocahontas because she wanted people to stop the fights and arguments to have peace. (¨Encyclopedia Virginia/Pocahontas¨) says, ¨¨In fact, she did not become a celebrity until the 1820s, when southerners sought a colonial heroine to compete with the story of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts and so establish Virginia (more accurately) as the earlier of the two English colonies.¨ This is a legacy because it shows that at one point, people didn't know about Pocahontas and that it took awhile to find out about her. These are some of the legacies of

Did you know that Pocahontas isn’t just a Disney character? Pocahontas was born around 1595 in what is now North America, but no one knows exactly when she was born. She was the favorite daughter of Chief Powhatan’s, but her mother is unknown. She helped many people, including the people of Jamestown. John Smith and John Rolfe, citizens of Jamestown, affected Pocahontas’ life greatly. Pocahontas helped the people of Jamestown survive through their first winter; she brought them food and told them when the Native Americans were going to attack.

Back in 1995, as a 20 year old woman, I was, absolutely, still in love with everything Disney. I was still very much enamored with the romance and fairy tale aspects of all their stories and movies. So when the Walt Disney Company released the animated feature “Pocahontas” in the summer of my 20th year, I had to see it. At the time, I thought I had hit the jackpot with this movie. “An American legend comes to life” is the tagline to get viewers interested in this movie. [1] A heroin, whom was a beautiful Indian and a love story, who could ask for more from a Disney movie, I thought to myself. Now, being ignorant of the true facts about the Indian woman Pocahontas and even about Indian culture and history itself, I took this story more

Pocahontas. Americans know her as the beautiful, Indian woman who fell in love with the white settler John Smith and then threw her body upon the poor white captive to protect him from being brutally executed by her own savage tribe. The magical world of Walt Disney came out with their own movie version several years ago portraying Pocahontas as a tan, sexy Barbie doll figure and John Smith as a blond-haired, blue-eyed muscular Ken doll. Although Disney attempts to instill racial tolerance, inter-racial friendship, and nonviolent resolutions in Pocahontas, they contribute to the inaccurate Indian woman stereotype that has evolved from such stories. While it can be argued that Disney has

Pocahontas and John Smith’s relationship really highlights the differences in culture in the film. John Smith, due to lack of exposure to Indian’s, truly believes that they are savages in comparison to the way the English live. Pocahontas and her tribe believe that the white men are savages in their own way, simply because they live and act in a different manner. When Pocahontas and John Smith teach each other the different greetings of their cultures, it is first exposed how different the two are. When John Smith and Pocahontas come together and fall in love, they have a few conversations that enlighten their lack of exposure to each others culture. John smith tells Pocahontas, “We've improved the lives of savages all over the world” and in

In Camilla Townsend’s book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, Townsend points out that there are many historical inaccuracies and myths that are associated with the story of Pocahontas. Using historical evidence to support the story of Pocahontas, Townsend attempted to create an accurate timeline bringing the past to the present. At the same time, the Disney film Pocahontas attempted to depict Algonquian culture accurately, however, according to history, much of the material presented in the film is full of misconceptions and is historically imprecise. In fact, Disney’s Pocahontas epitomizes John Smith and