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Is that a fact?
British Heritage. Feb97, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p71. 2/3p. 1 Black and White
Photograph.
Article
*POWHATAN Indians
*LEGENDS
Provides information on the legend of Pocohontas, a 17th century
Powhatan Indian Princess. How the Walt Disney film `Pocohontas,'
sought to clear up misconception about the princess; Difference between
the film and Pocohontas' real life.
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IS THAT A FACT?
Thanks to the talents of the Wait Disney animators, the name of the 17th-century Powhatan Indian
Princess, Pocohontas, is a household word. Critics of the Disney film are quick to list historical inaccuracies
in the newest version of the story-:--some glaring, others more subtle. The most fundamental difference
between film and reality, however, may be less due to modern creative licence than to generations of faulty
history.
The centrepiece of the legend of Pocohontas and the English colonist John Smith is the tale of how she
supposedly intervened in Smith's execution, thereby saving his life. Some historians now believe, based on
Smith's description of the event, that his life was never in danger, and that he had simply misinterpreted an
Indian ritual intended to initiate him into the tribe.
Also in contrast to the film, the real Pocohontas chose to visit England, although not to be with Smith, but in
the company of John Rolfe, whom she had married. (The real Pocohontas never showed any romantic
interest in Smith.) She would have done better to have stayed in Virginia, as she decides in Disney's version
of the story. In London, she was the toast of society, travelling under the new name of Lady Rebecca Rolfe,
and attending a reception at the Palace of Whitehall. But the damp climate of England was as unfamiliar to
her as the heat of Virginia had been to the English colonists. She became seriously ill and Rolfe made plans
to return with her to Virginia. Their ship got only as far as Gravesend before it became apparent that
Pocohontas would not survive. She was buried in London.
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