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AshLand Writer

That melody you love was supposed to be a song. It plays when Pocahontas says goodbye to Smith in the tent. The movie's mood is completely dead without it. Disney needs to take that version out of the vault. Nearly everyone's been complaining about it. The song's called "If I never knew you". I highly recommend that you find the scene on Youtube and watch it.

AshLand Writer

Regarding the history, I forget the details, but when Pocahontas was a little girl it fell on her whether John Smith would live or die. When she chose for him to live, he was invited to stay with them as sort of an adoptive brother. Language barriers and all, Smith misinterpreted this as an engagement. He thought he'd be marrying this prepubescent girl. At least that's what it says in his journal. The new documentary I saw said that Smith often exaggerated his stories and that he had written other stories about young women from other places saving his life. There was record of him and her teaching their languages to each other. Pocahontas often visited the village while the natives were offering food, and she eventually became a translator. Anyway, Pocahontas wasn't even her real name. The natives just told the settlers that because they believed names held power. Continuing on, Smith had used his relationship with Pocahontas and his knowledge of her language to gain position as leader of the settlement; however, when it became clear the settlers weren't allowed to offer any of their resources (such as guns) because they legally couldn't, the natives stopped offering their resources. Since Smith was a very strict leader, he was very disliked, and all this led to him being attacked by members of his own camp. He left to England with very serious injuries, and Pocahontas was told he was dead. Later on, when other settlers came to America, they had lost most of their resources in a hurricane during the journey, leaving five hundred more people entering the camp without food. They had also brought a plague, causing many in the camp to either die or become weak. If someone from the camp tried to leave, the natives would attack them; however, the new camp leader impowered them. Eventually, Pocahontas (at 16) visited a neighboring tribe, who were currently being threatened by the settlers, and led her onto the captain's boat. The settlers kidnapped her as ransom, but her father (the chief) could only partly pay it in food. While being held captive, the settlers used this opportunity to indoctrinate her into their religion and social customs. They figured that if they can convert the leader's daughter into their faith, then they could spread it to the all the tribes eventually. At the baptism, Pocahontas changes her name to Rebecca, and later on she takes note of a man (John Ralph) of had taken interest with her. She arranged a marriage with him (her tribe was known to make alliances through marriage), and both the tribe and the colony came to an agreement: her father needed more influence over the colony, and the colony needed the war to end. The colony stopped asking for the stolen guns back as well as the ransom they had previously demanded for the Chief's daughter on the condition that they natives wouldn't attack if the settlers left the camp. After Pocahontas and Ralph had their child, they were sent to England to prove that the settlement was safe (Her father sent a couple men with to learn more about the colonists). During the visit Pocahontas found Smith to be alive, and she had a public dispute with him about how he betrayed her people. After the journey ended, Pocahontas became very ill. They weren't sure if she had been poisoned or if England had a disease her body wasn't accustomed to. Ralph left their son to raised by his brother in England, and he went back to his tobacco plantation in America. Pocahontas had been the one to teach Ralph how to cure the plants, thus making his business of addictive drugs such a success and the need to find more sources of labor... I'm not going to blame her. She couldn't have known, but... The end? Um... her son came back to America to run the tobacco business. That's pretty much where the documentary ended.