Pocahontas as a moniker has been used throughout to perpetuate the mythical "Indian Princess" stereotype
But what if that wasn't her real name?
Today we explore the biography of the real Pocahontas and how her (many) names shaped public perception of both her and Native American women as a whole.
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Sources:
- https://soundcloud.com/missingmatoaka/missingmatoaka (Alternative audio track for the Disney movie
- Pocahontas and the Powhatan dilemma. Camilla Townsend (2004).
- The True Story of Pocahontas, The Other Side of History, co-authored by Dr. Linwood Custalow and Angela L. Daniel.
- https://encyclopediavirginia.org/
- Smith, J. (1908). A true relation of such occurrences and accidents of noate as hath hapned in Virginia since the first planting of that colony [. (E. Arber, Ed.). In Travels and works of Captain John Smith, President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England, 1580–1631 (Part I, pp. 1–40). John Grant [. (Original work published 1608) [
- When Fiction Wins: John Davis and the Emergence of a Romantic Pocahontas by Michael King
- Smith, John. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles. London, 1624.
- Smithsonian Channel. (Producer). (2017). Pocahontas: Beyond the myth [Film]. Smithsonian Networks
- [Film]. Walt Disney Pictures 1995
- Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. National Parks Services, 2022 https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/pocahontas-her-life-and-legend.htm
- Davis, John. Captain Smith and Princess Pocahontas: An Indian Tale. Philadelphia: T.C. Plowman, 1805
- Music: Market by Peritune
