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ShortHand: The Real Pocahontas
Episode 221
Published 1 month ago
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Long before the ‘90s cartoon version painted with all the colours of the wind, a real Native American woman named Pocahontas inspired a romantic tale that would endure for centuries…
But how much of her story is fact – and how much is a convenient colonial fiction?
Featuring gold-hunting colonists, grisly cannibalism and more than a splash of imperialist violence, let’s just say the true story isn’t exactly a Disney fairytale.
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