Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24138799-20131111105215/@comment-32390199-20131112184812

Applegirl wrote: How is Pocohontas not Native American? Referring to someone as American Indian is just another way to describe the indigenous ancestry he or she comes from, isn't it?

Seeing confirmation that John Smith's claims about how Pocohontas saved his life are full of dubiousity, I can sense why the event itself could be his own fabrication. If that is true, historically, I would feel it would give a continously wrong impression of the relationship (or non relationship) between Pocohontas and John Smith. Then again, I realize something else. I mean, just to think about it in Mulan's case. Even though she's not a real person, the Disney movie certainly has given her a famed depiction of her fictional life. So, in that sense, I would also say Disney's Mulan movie also helped shape people's perception of her even though historically, she was likely not a real person. In this aspect, the Mulan and Pocohontas movies have similiarity in that they both have creative adaptions of characters. I meant that Tiger Lily takes a role similar to Pocahontas. Tiger Lily may not be Native American but just an Indian, born in Neverland never has been in America neither did her ancestors. And that everything that happens to her in the story refrences to Pochontas' story.

From what I know Pocahontas was just a little girl and saved John Smith from execution by her father. And afterwards Pocahontas would often go to Jamestown to play and provide food if they were hungry. When John Smith was shot he was brought back to England and Pocahontas was told he died so she didn't visit Jamestown anymore, but she later discovered he was in England and went there. But by that time she was much older I belive.

However I do agree with you that the Disney movie has set a certain depiction for Pocahontas, so that people who talk about her will mostly think of the Disney version. So making her an adult would make sense too. But in this case I was talking about Tiger Lily taking her role from history.