{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6939faa834867e026d55a1b2/6a202d2444a383b494c009dd?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Pocahontas: Literally Everything You Know is Wrong!","description":"<p>She was eleven years old when the English arrived. Disney made her twenty-something with a love story. History gave her a name that wasn't hers. This week we're spilling the real story of Pocahontas — or Amonute, as she was actually named — and it's nothing like what you were taught.</p><p>We're breaking down the Powhatan Confederacy (one of the most powerful empires on the eastern seaboard), what John Smith actually wrote versus what he <em>claimed</em> seventeen years later, and the kidnapping, forced conversion, and suspected poisoning that the Disney movie conveniently left out.</p><p>Spoiler: she didn't save him. She was sent there. And the love story was invented by men who needed a myth more than they needed the truth.</p><p>If you've ever wanted to understand Native American history, Indigenous women, or colonization in the Americas beyond what you learned in school — this one's for you.</p><p><br></p><p>Want more? Check our our book reccomendations: https://bookshop.org/shop/SPILLED</p><p><br></p><p>Sources: </p><ul><li>Aron, Paul. \"Pocahontas &amp; John Smith: The Love Story Was Fiction...But Loved.\" Trend &amp; Tradition Magazine (Colonial Williamsburg), July 2, 2025. https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/discover/resource-hub/trend-tradition-magazine/trend-tradition-summer-2025/pocahontas-and-john-smith/</li><li>Historic Jamestowne. \"Meeting the English.\" Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation. https://historicjamestowne.org/history/pocahontas/meeting-the-english/</li><li>Mansky, Jackie. \"The True Story of Pocahontas Is More Complicated Than You Might Think.\" Smithsonian Magazine, updated February 20, 2024. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-pocahontas-more-complicated-than-you-might-think-180962649/</li><li>National Park Service. \"Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend.\" Jamestown National Historic Site, last updated September 4, 2022. https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/pocahontas-her-life-and-legend.htm</li><li>Paul, Heike. \"Pocahontas and the Myth of Transatlantic Love.\" In The Myths That Made America. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1wxsdq.6</li><li>Silverman, David. \"John Smith’s Bold Endeavor.\" Interview by Lisa Q. Wolfinger. NOVA: Pocahontas Revealed, PBS. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pocahontas/silverman.html</li><li>Smith, John. Excerpts from The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624). Encyclopedia Virginia. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/primary-documents/john-smith-and-pocahontas-in-england-an-excerpt-from-the-generall-historie-of-virginia-new-england-and-the-summer-isles-by-john-smith-1624</li><li>Wood, Karenne. \"Prisoners of History: Pocahontas, Mary Jemison, and the Poetics of an American Myth.\" Studies in American Indian Literatures 28, no. 1 (2016): 73–82. https://doi.org/10.5250/studamerindilite.28.1.0073</li><li>van der Straet, Jan (Stradanus). Allegory of America, ca. 1587–89. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/343845</li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"Delaney & Kendyl Florence"}