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OK, one more question. Did anyone else get a bit confused towards the end of John Smith's 1608 account? I was doing very well understanding his English but then once he started discussing all of the other Federations and the reasons they were meeting each other, I started to lose track of who was doing what. But, like everyone else, I find it amusing that he mentions Pocahontas once and, although he understands she's the favorite child, it's just a brief encounter the two seem to have. --Kelly Wuyscik | OK, one more question. Did anyone else get a bit confused towards the end of John Smith's 1608 account? I was doing very well understanding his English but then once he started discussing all of the other Federations and the reasons they were meeting each other, I started to lose track of who was doing what. But, like everyone else, I find it amusing that he mentions Pocahontas once and, although he understands she's the favorite child, it's just a brief encounter the two seem to have. --Kelly Wuyscik | ||
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| + | As was discussed earlier, there was a lot that I found surprisingly accurate about the Disney portrayal, an admission that seems almost blasphemous. The amount of honor and trust that Pocahontas showed for Grandmother Willow was closely in line with our discussions of matrilineal and matriarchal societies. However, the idealization of the Englishmen greatly bothered me. It seems as though Governor Ratcliffe would not have been the only power-hungry, greedy man in the lot, yet he is the only member of the Virginia Company with explicitly corrupt motives. Also, did anyone else feel as though the Native Americans were depicted as weak and inferior? This may have been subconscious thought working its way to the forefront, but it seemed to me as though Pocahontas and Powhatan were the only strong Native characters in the movie. --Cash Nelson | ||
