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In Disney's recent version of the Pocahontas story, as in countless iterations before it, John Smith ... called Smith "son." And the implication is, "We were supposed to be like family.
Pocahontas is the most myth-encrusted figure in early America, a romantic “princess” who saves John ... Disney and others, Pocahontas wasn’t a busty teenager when the English encountered her ...
This engraving is the only known portrait of Pocahontas rendered ... Some critics have argued that Disney's "princess" is older than the Powahatan girl John Smith would have encountered, that ...
In Disney’s cartoon version of the story (and elsewhere), Pocahontas is shown to be involved romantically with an Englishman called Captain John Smith. He was real, but not her boyfriend.
This is the Disney animated tale of the romance between a young Native American woman named Pocahontas (Irene Bedard) and Captain John Smith (Mel Gibson), who journeyed to the New World with other ...
While historians have long dug into the life of Pocahontas, the 1995 Disney animated film based ... and English explorer John Smith (voiced by Mel Gibson). This portrayal of a Powhatan woman ...
In 1995, Disney introduced ... 400 years ago today - Pocahontas. The plot goes that Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves English adventurer John Smith from execution when ...
A Walt Disney animated film ... surround the Native American woman Pocahontas, and features a fictionalized account of her encounter with Englishman John Smith and the settlers that arrived ...
A Walt Disney animated film ... surround the Native American woman Pocahontas, and features a fictionalized account of her encounter with Englishman John Smith and the settlers that arrived ...