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Dear Dr. M - I hate to admit this but once again you were right. Determing the historical accuracy of a movie such as "Pocahontas" is indeed like shooting fish in a barrel. I'm sorry I doubted you. But to be fair, one has to admit that the reaction that the Native Americans had when first seeing the "pale faced ones" had to be pretty accurate. It was a new group of people arriving on their land and they didn't know anything about them. They were unprepared to deal with them and that was shown in the movie. Powhatan even mentioned to Kocoum that they couldn't just immediately go fight - they didn't know enough about their enemy to ensure they would win. --Kelly Wuyscik | Dear Dr. M - I hate to admit this but once again you were right. Determing the historical accuracy of a movie such as "Pocahontas" is indeed like shooting fish in a barrel. I'm sorry I doubted you. But to be fair, one has to admit that the reaction that the Native Americans had when first seeing the "pale faced ones" had to be pretty accurate. It was a new group of people arriving on their land and they didn't know anything about them. They were unprepared to deal with them and that was shown in the movie. Powhatan even mentioned to Kocoum that they couldn't just immediately go fight - they didn't know enough about their enemy to ensure they would win. --Kelly Wuyscik | ||
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| + | The movie did have some truth to it, as Mallory said it does show the women working in the fields and the men fishing. You can also see the clear relationship between the Native Americans and nature. However, at the same time there the movie has some errors. The most obvious being the love story. So where is the swamp land in the movie that was such a large part of the Jamestown landscape? -- Kellye Sorber | ||
