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Every Native woman has been compared to Pocahontas - a 12yo child sex trafficking victim who was sold to white men in Britain to keep her people in line.
What do you think it does to Indigenous women to be constantly compared to this real girl Disney turned into a "princess"?
What do you think it does to Indigenous women to be constantly compared to this real girl Disney turned into a "princess"?
What do you think it does to a country to massively rewrite history in this way? To pretend that any 12yo could have the capacity to not only consent to rape, but to consent to being a pawn in a political game solely meant to keep her powerful people from stopping US expansion?
This country has many sins to account for.
The use, abuse and misuse of "Pocahontas" - whose real name was Matoaka - is only one. And yet it's one that this country seems consistently unable to even look at, let alone reckon with.
The use, abuse and misuse of "Pocahontas" - whose real name was Matoaka - is only one. And yet it's one that this country seems consistently unable to even look at, let alone reckon with.
