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The True Story Of Pocahontas: Historical Myths Versus Sad Reality

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movie shows them having a love similar to Romeo and Juliet, where they have a undying love even when both their families are conflicting. However, this is extremely far from the truth and the version of the story that inspired the infamous Disney film was actually written by the real John Smith himself, and was meant to alter a extremely dark reality (The True Story of Pocahontas: Historical Myths Versus Sad Reality, Schilling). In reality, Pocahontas was only 10 years old when John Smith came to America. Her father was the chief of the village and John Smith threatened her father’s tribe for food when they could barely feed themselves and eventually a man named John Rolfe kidnapped her. They killed her aboriginal husband and threatened her …show more content…

The Euro-Canadian kidnapped her, stripped her of her culture, sexually assaulted her and moved her to England, where she was isolated and people were looking down on her. And although Maata was never abused and tortured like Pocahontas, Maata was also moved to a city where she had to endure the Euro-Canadian culture and felt isolated and alienated from everyone around her. Maata was moved to a new city because she had to go through the extremely agonizing hardship of losing her parents, when a Christian priest named Moorehead suggests to Maata’s family to return from a trip on their boat even when the water seemed unsafe. Ice came crashing down on the boat, leaving only Moorhead and Maata to survive and Maata’s parents to die. Maata feels completely alone in her world without the people she loves the most, so Moorehead then decided to move Maata to a boarding school in Quebec City to attempt to assimilate her in Christianity. There, people look down on her culture and her people, judging her even though they know nothing about

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