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14 Disney Movie Facts That Are Actually Upsetting AF And Might Ruin Your Favorite Films

Disney's Pocahontas completely switches the narrative from the real story of the Native American woman, Pocahontas, who suffered greatly at the hands of white English colonists. Disney often attempts to turn a tragedy into romance, but this one denies the very real, haunting history. Pocahontas was "one of the first real-life Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW)." During her life, Pocahontas was kidnapped, raped, and forcibly brought to England, where she died under mysterious circumstances before 21. Additionally, her romance with John Smith in the film was entirely fictional. Overall, Pocahontas's life and the treatment of Indigenous peoples by white English colonists were heavily sugarcoated, romanticized, and inaccurately portrayed by Disney.