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Disney’s «Pocahontas» is an animated, empowering tale about a powerful young woman who fights for what she believes in against impossible odds. Unfortunately, in making the film appeal to children, Disney fabricated almost everything to support the underlying narrative of Pocahontas, whose actual name was Amonute, as an idealized heroine.
In the film, Pocahontas is 19, but in reality, she was 12 when she met John Smith in 1607. He was 27 at the time, so it’s clear why Disney opted to fudge her age a bit. Smith claimed that Pocahontas saved him from execution, as seen in the film, but historians are skeptical about the veracity of his account.
The film doesn’t show Pocahontas’ fate, which was actually very sad. She married John Rolfe, converted to Christianity, and took the name Rebecca. Prominent Christians showed her off as «proof» that converting Native Americans to the faith was possible, and by 1617, she died at the age of 22, likely from pneumonia or tuberculosis. None of this would have made for a good Disney animated film, but in the end, the movie is still wildly inaccurate.
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