Word: powhatans
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This week's example: Pocahontas, the handsome, deeply felt, even more deeply reverent animated musical from the Walt Disney Co. In retelling and retooling the 17th century encounter between the Powhatan princess and English Captain John Smith, the film takes the American Indians' self-image at face value. These are men of probity, women of dignity, curators of the land, weavers of white magic. Their standoff with the white man is one of eco-heroes vs. strip miners, defenders of an idyllic homeland against greedy invaders...
...buxom woman of 20, when she met John Smith -- with whom she did not have a romance (though she did marry an Englishman and move to London). "I wish they would take the name Pocahontas off that movie," Shirley "Little Dove" Custalow McGowan, a storyteller of the Powhatan nation and for a time a Disney consultant on the picture, told the Washington Post. On the other side, Russell Means, the Wounded Knee insurgent who provided the voice of Chief Powhatan, said, "It is the finest film ever done in Hollywood on the Native American experience...
...Powhatan was in the "immediate area," Icenogle said, adding, "It could render some assistance...
...coat. There were only four automobiles in Yenan then, and when Mao required one, his vehicle was a converted ambulance. Out of this ambulance they now rushed, trotting pell-mell to greet Franklin Roosevelt's emissary. Hurley towered above the stocky Chinese like Captain John Smith surrounded by Powhatan's tribal braves...
...achievement to be honored in a national holiday. Like the Pilgrims, the Virginia colonists barely survived their first years in the New World. Like the Pilgrims, they persevered. Against Miles Standish's bungled courtship of Priscilla Alden, the Jamestown legend can put the capture of John Smith by Powhatan and his rescue by Pocahontas. The counterpart of the Pilgrim's harvest feast in Virginia was the arrival of a relief expedition on June...