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The Historic Jamestowne site said thatВ Pocahontas married Kocoum in 1610В ('Should I marry Kocoum?'), a year after Smith left Virginia. Kocoum was a real person who existed, but he wasn't killed by the bumbling British man-boy Thomas like the film shows. In the film, Chief Powhatan wants Pocahontas to marry the stoic Powhatan warrior Kocoum, even though Pocahontas is resistant.

Shockingly, history has no record of a talking willow tree - or spunky raccoons and hummingbirds - either. So no make-out sessions between the pair went down around Grandmother Willow. For me, this reinforces the idea that Smith probably did consider Pocahontas just to be a child in this new land he had traveled to. This is an indication that she would have most likely been naked when she met John Smith. A fact that continued to come up when I was researching their history (particularly on the Historic Jamestowne website) was that youngВ Powhatan Indian children wore little or no clothingВ (with maybe an animal pelt in the winter). They were close for a couple of years though since Pocahontas acted as a liaison between the British and the Powhatan Chiefdom. The RomanceД«ecause of the aforementioned age difference, there was no real romantic relationship between Smith and Pocahontas. And Encyclopedia VirginiaВ wrote that Smith came to America from England withВ the Virginia Company of London, so the details of the opening song 'The Virginia Company' weren't far off from the truth. The film was correct in portrayingВ Smith as a well-traveled explorerВ and soldier and the Colonial Williamsburg JournalВ confirmed that he traveled to Virginia around 1606/1607 and did work with a man named John Ratcliffe. Smith and the British landed in the spring and she didn't encounter Smith untilВ he was captured in the winterВ by Powhatan's brother Opechancanough. In the film, John Smith and Pocahontas meet almost instantly after he lands in America - with the exception of a quick musical interlude with the song 'Mine, Mine, Mine.' (History does not indicate any spontaneous singing.) In truth, Pocahontas and her father didn't meet any British people for a few months, according to the Historic Jamestowne site.

The film did get it right that her father was Chief Powhatan (whose real name was Wahunsenacawh) and that her birth mother was no longer around - historians can't prove if her mother had actually died or not though. The Historic Jamestowne website wrote thatВ Smith was 27-years-oldВ at the time (the real Smith was sans dreamy blonde hair and piercing blue eyes) and the Disney film bumped Pocahontas's age up significantly to go the romance route with the two historical figures. Pocahontas is said to have beenВ around 10 or 11-years-oldВ when she met Captain John Smith in 1607, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Other than some basic facts though, the movie then diverges from history. She was also her father's favorite child and though Disney doesn't show her having any siblings, she is clearly loved by her father in the film. The name Pocahontas was a nickname meaning 'playful one' and Disney did stay true to her playful nature. Her nameДЄccording to the Historic Jamestowne website, Pocahontas's name was Amonute, although she also had the more private name of Matoaka. But according to the written history of her lifeВ on the website for Historic Jamestowne, which is part of Colonial National Historical Park, Disney definitely didn't stick to history's script. Some say that he should know better and they do not excuse his comment, others found it distateful and uncalled for, while some gave him the benefit of the doubt.ДЇor those readers who only know the 'Colours of the Wind', sassy talking tree Grandma Willow and technicolour version of 'Pocahontas' here are some facts to educate you, so you don't ignorantly fall into a Trump trap yourself.Дisney got some of Pocahontas' story right, but it got a lot wrong.В A lot is also not known about Pocahontas - she lived over 400 years ago - and there are many different accounts.

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