Disney’s Pocahontas: The Dangers of Romanticization

Pocahontas is a Disney animated film released in 1995 that takes place in 17th-century Virginia. The movie follows the encounter between an Algonquin woman, Pocahontas, and John Smith, an English soldier, and the ensuing tensions between the Indigenous peoples and the colonists. While the colonists, led by the antagonist Governor Radcliffe, set up camp in …