The True Pocahontas

Throughout the years, the story of Pocahontas has been retold thousands of times, of where a young Native American falls in love with John Smith, but that was not the case, the story is very inaccurate of what actually happened, partly because the story was written by John Smith as he wrote the story 17 years later, Pocahontas was younger than she was depicted in John Smith’s story, and also mentioned that each city he would travel to, there would be coincidentally be a young girl that would fall in love with him.

This will be supported through the use the book of Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma.

One of the possible reasons why the Disney story of Pocahontas and the actual story are different is due to the fact that john smith had written the story of what happened with Pocahontas 17 years later of when it actually happened in 1624, which by then, anyone who was present at the time it actually happened couldn’t deny anything John Smith said about what really happened because they had died, which leads me to believe that he had falsified information of what actually happened to make it a story that everyone would love, of how Pocahontas fell in love with John Smith and thanks to their “relationship” that they had, it served as a way to bring the two distinct cultures together and reached to mutual understanding over the land and natural resources.

Because people love that kind of story, it led to Disney making an animated movie and people loved it when it was released in 1995, as it made over $346 million dollars worldwide in the box office, and $141 million in the United States alone.

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Another reason would be that there are multiple points in John Smith’s story that are inconsistent that undermine and do not back up what John Smith says in his Pocahontas story. For example, “He did not mention the story in the report he sent back to England shortly after the events. He did not mention it in either of the b…