Pocahontas

Now, I love Pocahontas. I was obsessed with it as a little kid, but now as an adult I’m able to look at it with a critical approach and Pocahontas___John_Smith_by_Opal_Isee some of the inaccuracies that are portrayed in it, but that won’t stop me from still enjoying the film. I came across this critique and breakdown of Disney’s Pocahontas (1995) and the title of the critique was entitled, “Poverty, alcoholism, and sucide, but at least the natives can paint with all the colors of the wind,” and it really got me to thinking about the “Aliens and Indians” article by Marez and the problems that arise with the portrayal of Native Americans. I will say, Pocahontas is steps up in its portrayal from Peter Pan, but yet problems still seem to arise. It seems to set up a romanticized version of colonization.

In the film they seem to gloss over the fact that colonization was not as easy as it was portrayed in the film, they didn’t all become friends after a brief “misunderstanding” as I am pretty sure the settlers never saw the error in their ways and decided to put differences aside and to become friends, and while yes this is a children’s movie and there is a brief
But for some reason we always seem to hide the real problems from not only our children, but adults as well. Because it leads us to today with most people thinking of Native Americans having drinking problems and owning casinos, its a real problem. This year I learned about the American Indian movement that was started in the late 1960s and continues today, something that I didn’t even know was going on, but at least its good to know that Native Americans are trying to find some justice for everything that has been done to them since the beginning of