This video tells more about who wrote it than Pocahontas...

Ok, this channel should be called “English Absolute History”

There is no romance between an 11-13 year-old child and a nearly 30-year-old adult. Can we please stop framing this story as a romance?

ETA: I know things were different back then and this kind of age gap was common. I know girls were often married at a young age. I'm not trying to apply modern morals to 17th century people.

My complaint is that here we are, in the 21st century, still framing this story as romantic (even when acknowledging it was likely there was no romantic/sexual relationship between the two). She was kidnapped, pressured to convert to Christianity, married to a much older white man, and then taken from her homeland. My issue is that people are still framing this as romantic, when it's a story about an indigenous woman being trafficked, which is still a very real problem. Matoaka is one of the first, and best recorded, cases of a missing or murdered indigenous woman. This is an ongoing crisis in North America and continuing to see Matoaka's story through rose colored lenses is frankly disrespectful to say the least.

How we tell stories about our past is incredibly important.

TLDR: I'm not talking about how things were done in the 17th century, I'm talking about how the story is being told by modern people. Matoaka isn't a tragic heroine, she's the poster girl for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman.

Not the first British settlement. The fishing camp that became St. John’s, Newfoundland was.  However, Jamestown was the first GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED colony; at least 30 years prior, British officials went to the fishing village to collect taxes. They were told to FO.  The British company took taxes by force and left. They were never seen again.

Yeah... I feel like this was another Disney version of the story of Pocahontas but otherwise great story telling.

I just drove past Jamestown and wondered why they didn’t get closer to a water source.  The video explained everything.

I am a citizen of the Pamunkey Tribe, Chief Powhatan, Wahunsonacock and Pocahontas’ tribe. Please get our people to speak on this subject. I’m tired of non-natives Narrative and Perspective. Our voices need to heard, let us speak about her with our Narrative and Perspective and not non-natives or people from other Native tribes.

I recently learned that Pocahontas is my 12th Great-Grandmother. I never knew any of this information until I learned of our connection.

im so sorry that happend to her🥺i was in tears🥲She brought peace Pocahontus is such a important Woman in history🙌🏻👸🏼🪶☮️

There is something wrong with you if you think Disney cartoons are documentaries

One thing everyone ought to remember is that “history” is written by the winners of whatever situation, war, etc. Also think about the word history in a terminology format….His-story notice it’s not His-fact…js

I've been reading a book that her tribe wrote of their oral history . I recommend reading that side of the story. Pocahontas was severely depressed and repeatedly raped during that time period. It's tragic. Many of her tribe members believe she was poisoned.

What a sad story! She never saw her father or her home again. England is no match for the rolling hills, towering peaks, vast meadows and crystal clear waters of home. This broke my heart...

This is a really infuriating way of describing child rape.

It take a certain kind of arrogance/ignorance to settle in  an uninhabited place, and not once stop and wonder why no-one was living in this supposed amazingly good spot.

I'm from Virginia I have been there many many times. One ancestor arrived there in 1609. They later moved into the mountains around,1760

Thanks! Very informative.

I'm the 11th Great Neice of Pocahontas straight blood line

Disney has never been interested in history, accuracy, or anything resembling reality.

I think they would’ve sounded British…having just come from there..