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drcorey said:Disney does change alot of stuff, would children really want to know the
true story of Pocahontas, do they really need to know she was really only 9 years old when she feel in love with smith and left to live with him in england and died years later of a "social" disease.
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WHAT!!!!
Pocahontas was believed to have been born in the year 1595. Pocahontas's father was a powerful chief named Powhatan, who ruled more than 25 tribes.
Pocahontas became acquainted with the English colonists who settled in the Chesapeake Bay area in 1607.
The next year, Powhatan's brother Opechancanough (Pocahontas's father) captured colonist
John Smith.
According to an account later written by Smith, Pocahontas saved his life by throwing herself down and cradling his head before he was clubbed to death.
Smith promised Powhatan guns in return for his spared life. Instead he sent many other gifts, but no guns.
In 1609, Smith was forced to return to England after being badly burned in a gun powder accident.
Relationships between the natives & the settlers deteriorated.
Several years later, Pocahontas was taken hostage by the colonists.
She was treated kindly during her captivity and lived in the home of a minister.
During this time, Pocahontas converted to Christianity and was baptized with the name Rebecca.
While being held in Jamestown, Pocahontas met a distinguished colonist named
John Rolfe.
The two fell in love and were married.
In 1615, Rolfe and Pocahontas (at approxamately the age of 20) had their first and only child, Thomas.
In 1616 they traveled to England where Pocahontas again met John Smith whom she had beleived to be dead.
Before returning to Virginia, Pocahontas contracted
small pox. Pocahontas died in England in March, 1617, at the age of 21.
Smallpox is a disfiguring, potentially lethal blistering virally transmitted infection not at all social.
Disney did not follow the true life story of Pocahontas. They took some liberties with the retelling of the story. As do many movies animated or otherwise.
It would however be very sad if the true story of this remarkable young woman who was credited with contributing to the maintenance of peace between the colonists and the natives were to be forgotten. :mEars: