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How Much Do We Really Know About Pocahontas?
The Smithsonian ^ | 11-3-13 | Tony Horwitz

Posted on 11/03/2013 3:30:17 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic

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To: afraidfortherepublic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Geum

A female doctor to the King, all that is known about her is those 7 entries into the official Chronology. That is it.

That did not stop a Korean TV network from doing a 54 episode series about her life. lol. All embellishment really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dae_Jang_Geum

And if that wasn’t enough they followed that up with a 52-episde cartoon series, about her childhood. Of which nothing is known in reality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Geum%27s_Dream

You can find these online with subtitles I bet.


21 posted on 11/03/2013 5:08:48 PM PST by GeronL
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To: PowderMonkey

Abandoned some self-imposed computer work, today, in order to remain outside and think about much of what you wrote; thank you.


22 posted on 11/03/2013 5:12:45 PM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: GeronL; afraidfortherepublic
they could make a 200-episode series about someone based on a single sentence in a diary.

I've seen a few of those: The Genuine True Life Story of ____________, Told In His Own Words, If He Could Have Lived & Written It As Conceived By Our Writers And Producers!

23 posted on 11/03/2013 5:30:17 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: GeronL
Hollywood already made a version of Pochahontas.


24 posted on 11/03/2013 5:32:41 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I saw that before. That is pretty amazing and so true.


25 posted on 11/03/2013 5:39:34 PM PST by GeronL
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To: ApplegateRanch

Yes. It COULD have been a true story.

lolz


26 posted on 11/03/2013 5:40:24 PM PST by GeronL
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To: ApplegateRanch

:’)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3084030/posts?page=41#41


27 posted on 11/03/2013 5:54:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: tumblindice

AFAIK Pocahontas was never anywhere near Gitcheegoomie- that is the Huron name for Lake Superior.


28 posted on 11/03/2013 6:22:05 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
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To: dfwgator

Yup, that’s the Avatar plot. Just as in Disney’s Pocahontas, the American Marines in Avatar are murderous savages.


29 posted on 11/03/2013 6:23:43 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: Squawk 8888
AFAIK Pocahontas was never anywhere near Gitcheegoomie- that is the Huron name for Lake Superior.

I only know that because of Gord's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

30 posted on 11/03/2013 6:25:20 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Only her high cheekbones and almond-shaped eyes

Are high cheekbones and almond-shaped eyes unknown in England at that time?

31 posted on 11/03/2013 6:49:14 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: PowderMonkey

Injun Summer

Yep, sonny this is sure enough Injun summer. Don't know what that is, I reckon, do you? Well, that's when all the homesick Injuns come back to play; You know, a long time ago, long afore yer granddaddy was born even, there used to be heaps of Injuns around here—thousands—millions, I reckon, far as that's concerned. Reg'lar sure 'nough Injuns—none o' yer cigar store Injuns, not much. They wuz all around here—right here where you're standin'.

Don't be skeered—hain't none around here now, leastways no live ones. They been gone this many a year.

They all went away and died, so they ain't no more left.

But every year, 'long about now, they all come back, leastways their sperrits do. They're here now. You can see 'em off across the fields. Look real hard. See that kind o' hazy misty look out yonder? Well, them's Injuns—Injun sperrits marchin' along an' dancin' in the sunlight. That's what makes that kind o' haze that's everywhere—it's jest the sperrits of the Injuns all come back. They're all around us now.

See off yonder; see them tepees? They kind o' look like corn shocks from here, but them's Injun tents, sure as you're a foot high. See 'em now? Sure, I knowed you could. Smell that smoky sort o' smell in the air? That's the campfires a-burnin' and their pipes a-goin'.

Lots o' people say it's just leaves burnin', but it ain't. It's the campfires, an' th' Injuns are hoppin' 'round 'em t'beat the old Harry.

You jest come out here tonight when the moon is hangin' over the hill off yonder an' the harvest fields is all swimmin' in the moonlight, an' you can see the Injuns and the tepees jest as plain as kin be. You can, eh? I knowed you would after a little while.

Jever notice how the leaves turn red 'bout this time o' year? That's jest another sign o' redskins. That's when an old Injun sperrit gits tired dancin' an' goes up an' squats on a leaf t'rest. Why I kin hear 'em rustlin' an' whisper in' an' creepin' 'round among the leaves all the time; an' ever' once'n a while a leaf gives way under some fat old Injun ghost and comes floatin' down to the ground. See—here's one now. See how red it is? That's the war paint rubbed off'n an Injun ghost, sure's you're born.

Purty soon all the Injuns'll go marchin' away agin, back to the happy huntin' ground, but next year you'll see 'em troopin' back—th' sky jest hazy with 'em and their campfires smolderin' away jest like they are now.

John T. McCutcheon 1907

32 posted on 11/03/2013 6:53:44 PM PST by concentric circles
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To: twyn1
If you want a chuckle look up "Jokahontas" by the Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister).

It don't make fun of the history but boy does it sock it to Disney.

33 posted on 11/03/2013 6:55:36 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Pocahontas “Matoaka” & son Thomas (2 1/2 years old)

This Sedgeford portrait of Pocahontas and her son, Thomas Rolfe, carefully preserved through the centuries, although its travels and whereabouts have been been shrouded in mystery. Presently at Kings Lynn Museum.


34 posted on 11/03/2013 6:58:01 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: GreyFriar
Don't ever do that again.

EVER.

35 posted on 11/03/2013 7:07:32 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Squawk 8888

I musta been thinking about Sacajaweewee ....


36 posted on 11/03/2013 8:22:49 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: PowderMonkey
Seventh grade history was Virginia history only. We were led to believe that no other state existed but “The Old Dominion”, Commonwealth of Virginia.
37 posted on 11/03/2013 8:28:25 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: tumblindice
I remember that song.
38 posted on 11/03/2013 10:24:14 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: higgmeister
Seventh grade history was Virginia history only.

I was and remain shocked to learn that every state does not teach Texas history.

I'm sure other states have something resembling history.. but really.. who cares?

39 posted on 11/04/2013 3:25:14 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: twyn1

Her uncle, Opechancanough, half brother of Powhatan, is supposedly a who-knows-how-many-great great grandfather of mine, not a pretty story though. No movies would ever be made of that one.


40 posted on 11/04/2013 3:38:27 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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