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Narrator: POCAHONTAS HAS BEEN
A LEGEND FOR SO LONG,
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IT'S ALMOST HARD TO BELIEVE
SHE WAS AN ACTUAL PERSON.
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Woman:
POCAHONTAS WAS A REAL GIRL
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WHO WALKED AROUND THE SAME WAY
WE WALK AROUND TODAY.
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Narrator: SHE GREW UP
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TO BECOME THE MOST FAMOUS
AMERICAN INDIAN WOMAN
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IN HISTORY.
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Woman:
AND THAT PUTS HER IN THE CLASS
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OF, YOU KNOW,
CLEOPATRA AND JOAN OF ARC.
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Narrator: BUT HOW MUCH
OF THE STORY WE KNOW IS TRUE?
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Woman:
DID THEY REALLY UNDERSTAND
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WHAT THEY WERE SEEING?
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Man: WAS POCAHONTAS A TRAITOR
TO HER OWN PEOPLE?
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Man: MAYBE SHE WAS
A DOUBLE AGENT.
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Narrator: AND WHAT KEEPS
HER MEMORY ALIVE
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OVER FOUR CENTURIES?
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Actress: POCAHONTAS ASKS HIM
TO GIVE HER THIS MAN'S LIFE.
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Woman: ONCE A WHOLE GENERATION
IS TOLD A STORY THAT THEY LOVE,
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IT TENDS TO LAST,
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AND THIS ONE LASTED.
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Man: WE CAN TELL YOU EXACTLY
WHERE IN THE CHURCH SHE STOOD.
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THAT GIVES ME THE GOOSEBUMPS.
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Narrator: HERS IS A STORY
WE TELL OURSELVES ABOUT AMERICA,
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A FOUNDING MOTHER
WHO STILL DEFINES US TODAY.
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FOR 400 YEARS, POCAHONTAS
HAS BEEN A HOUSEHOLD NAME.
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WE MAY THINK OF HER STORY
AS ANCIENT HISTORY,
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BUT HER PEOPLE ARE STILL
VERY MUCH ALIVE.
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Terry McAuliffe:
THIS IS A HISTORIC YEAR FOR US.
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THE PAMUNKEY TRIBE HAS RECEIVED
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FROM THE BUREAU
OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,
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THEY HAVE BEEN JUST RECOGNIZED
AS A FEDERAL TRIBE,
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SO CONGRATULATIONS...
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[APPLAUSE AND CHEERING]
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David Penney: THE INDIANS
THAT WE PROJECT ROMANTICALLY
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INTO OUR KIND OF PAST,
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FOR MANY AMERICANS TO LEARN
THAT, WELL, WAIT A MINUTE,
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THE DESCENDANTS OF THOSE SAME
SO-CALLED MYTHICAL INDIANS
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THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE
FADED AWAY
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ARE STILL WITH US TODAY.
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Narrator:
THE MOST FAMOUS AND MYTHIC
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AMERICAN INDIAN STORY OF ALL
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IS POCAHONTAS.
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Paul Chaat Smith: SHE WAS SEEN
AS A REALLY CONSEQUENTIAL PERSON
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IN AMERICAN HISTORY
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.
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Narrator: SHE'S BEEN CELEBRATED
AS AN AMERICAN PRINCESS.
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Smith:
SHE WAS SEEN AS ROYALTY.
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SHE WAS FAMOUS ON TWO CONTINENTS
WHILE STILL A TEENAGER.
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Narrator:
SHE'S EVEN A DISNEY PRINCESS.
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THE STORY THAT'S BEEN PASSED
DOWN THROUGH THE CENTURIES
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IS A ROMANCE,
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A LOVE THAT UNITES TWO CULTURES
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AND CREATES LASTING PEACE...
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FORGING TWO WORLDS INTO ONE.
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BUT EVEN WRITTEN HISTORY
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CAN HAVE A CURIOUS HABIT
OF GETTING IT ALL WRONG.
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Penney: THE KIND OF
ROMEO AND JULIET STORY,
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THE JOHN SMITH
AND POCAHONTAS STORY,
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VERY LIKELY NEVER HAPPENED.
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Narrator: THE TRUE STORY
IS LESS OF A FAIRY TALE.
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[YELLING]
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KIDNAPPING...
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CONFLICT...
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[GUNFIRE]
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STARVATION...
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CANNIBALISM...
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AN OCEAN JOURNEY...
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AND THE FUTURE
OF AN ENTIRE CIVILIZATION
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MAKE UP THE REAL STORY
OF POCAHONTAS.
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THE STORY STARTS
YEARS BEFORE THE PILGRIMS
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ARRIVE AT PLYMOUTH ROCK
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WHEN THREE BRITISH SHIPS
MAKE LANDFALL
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IN WHAT IS TODAY
THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.
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THEY ARE THERE TO FOUND
THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY
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IN THE NEW WORLD.
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James Horn: I'D SAY
IT'S A PRETTY WIDESPREAD BELIEF
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THAT THE PURITANS--
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MORE ACCURATELY THE PILGRIMS--
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WHO ARRIVED AT PLYMOUTH
IN 1620,
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WAS THE FIRST PERMANENT
ENGLISH COLONY,
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UH, BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY
PRECEDED BY JAMESTOWN
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13 YEARS EARLIER, IN 1607.
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Narrator: 104 SETTLERS,
FINANCED BY LONDON INVESTORS
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AND WITH THE PERMISSION
OF KING JAMES I,
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HAVE COME TO SEARCH FOR GOLD
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AND A WATER PASSAGE
TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
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THEY ARE EXPLORERS,
MERCENARIES AND TRADESPEOPLE
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LOOKING TO MAKE THEIR FORTUNES.
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OF COURSE, IT'S ONLY
THE NEW WORLD TO THEM.
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THE INDIAN ALGONQUIN PEOPLE
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HAVE LIVED HERE
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
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Ashley Atkins:
WHEN THE ENGLISH ARRIVED,
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THEY WERE STEPPING INTO
A REALLY INTRICATE LANDSCAPE
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THAT INVOLVED AN EXTREMELY
LARGE AND POWERFUL CHIEFDOM.
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Narrator:
THE CHIEF, WAHUNSENACAWH,
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OR CHIEF POWHATAN,
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WAS POCAHONTAS' FATHER.
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AS HIS DAUGHTER, SHE HAS GONE
DOWN IN HISTORY AS A PRINCESS.
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Smith: WE KNOW THAT THE PRINCESS
ISN'T VERY ACCURATE
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BECAUSE SHE HAD TONS
OF SISTERS AND BROTHERS,
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AND NONE OF THEM WERE CALLED
PRINCES OR PRINCESSES.
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BUT SHE WAS A DAUGHTER
OF A POWERFUL LEADER.
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I THINK AMERICA
WANTS ROYALTY, RIGHT?
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THERE'S AN ENVY OF ROYALTY.
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SO IT'S KIND OF COOL
THAT, YOU KNOW, OUR ROYAL
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WILL BE LIKE AN INDIAN.
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Narrator: POPULAR CULTURE
IMAGINES HER AS A GROWN WOMAN.
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BUT IN 1607, POCAHONTAS
WAS A GIRL OF 9 OR 10.
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Camilla Townsend:
POCAHONTAS WAS A REAL GIRL
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WHO WALKED AROUND
THE SAME WAY WE WALK AROUND.
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WHAT MADE HER LAUGH
MAY HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT
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FROM WHAT MAKES US LAUGH,
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BUT THAT SPARK OF JOY
WHEN SHE WAS GIGGLING
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WAS THE SAME AS THE SPARK OF JOY
IN ANY YOUNG GIRL TODAY.
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Narrator:
HER REAL NAME WAS MATOAKA.
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POCAHONTAS WAS JUST A NICKNAME.
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DEPENDING ON WHO YOU ASK,
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IT EITHER MEANT "SPOILED CHILD"
OR "PLAYFUL ONE."
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EITHER WAY, IT SUGGESTS
A CAREFREE CHILDHOOD
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FOR THE CHIEF'S DAUGHTER.
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BUT THE ARRIVAL OF THE COLONISTS
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WOULD PUT THAT REALITY
TO THE TEST.
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Horn: I THINK THE ENGLISH
GET MIXED MESSAGES.
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THERE WERE SOME INDIAN PEOPLES
ALONG THE JAMES RIVER
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WHO WELCOMED THEM.
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UM, TRADE.
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AND THERE ARE INDIAN PEOPLES
THAT ARE MORE HOSTILE.
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Narrator: JUST A MONTH
AFTER MAKING LANDFALL,
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THE SETTLERS ARE ATTACKED
BY 200 INDIANS.
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TWO COLONISTS ARE KILLED,
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AND 11 ARE WOUNDED.
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[BIRD CALLS]
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[GUNFIRE AND YELLING]
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THE ATTACK
WAS JUST THE FIRST SIGN
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THAT LIFE IN JAMESTOWN MIGHT NOT
LIVE UP TO EXPECTATIONS.
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IT WAS SWAMPY,
MOSQUITO-INFESTED,
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AND THE WATER WAS IMPURE.
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BEFORE LONG, THE COLONISTS WERE
BATTLING DISEASE AND HUNGER.
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Horn: FINDING FOOD
AND FINDING PROVISIONS
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TO KEEP THAT COLONY ALIVE
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WAS ONE OF THE TOUGHEST JOBS.
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UM, NOT JUST
FOR JAMESTOWN, ACTUALLY.
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MOST EUROPEAN COLONIES FAILED
WITHIN 12 MONTHS.
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Narrator: THEY SOON REALIZE
THEY ARE WOEFULLY UNPREPARED.
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Townsend: THE ENGLISH
HAVE BEEN LAUGHED AT,
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IN A SENSE, BY HISTORIANS
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FOR ARRIVING
WITHOUT ANY CLEAR SENSE
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OF HOW THEY WERE GOING
TO SUPPORT THEMSELVES.
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Narrator: DESPITE ABUNDANT
FISHING AND HUNTING,
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THE ENGLISH SIMPLY LACK
THE REQUISITE KNOW-HOW
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TO MAKE THEIR FOOD SUPPLY
MEET DEMAND.
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Atkins: HERE THEY'RE
SURROUNDED BY FOOD.
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LIKE, I GO TO JAMESTOWN ISLAND,
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AND I'M LIKE YOU
COULD HAVE EATEN THAT,
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YOU COULD HAVE EATEN THAT.
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I MEAN, MAYBE IT WASN'T THERE,
YOU KNOW, 400 YEARS AGO,
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BUT I'M PRETTY SURE IT WAS.
[LAUGHS]
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Narrator: AS WINTER SETS IN,
THE PROBLEM INTENSIFIES.
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TO THE POWHATAN, THEY HARDLY
SEEM LIKE A THREAT.
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Smith: FOR A LONG TIME,
INDIANS IN VIRGINIA
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ACTUALLY THOUGHT THE ENGLISH
CAME TO LOOK FOR FOOD,
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BECAUSE THEIR EXPERIENCE
OF SEEING THE ENGLISH
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WAS THEY WERE DESPERATELY
HUNGRY ALL THE TIME,
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THEY WERE CLUELESS
ABOUT FISHING,
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THEY WERE
CLUELESS ABOUT FARMING.
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SO MAYBE THEY CAME HERE
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BECAUSE WHERE THEY'RE FROM,
IT'S EVEN WORSE.
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Narrator: JAMESTOWN WAS LED BY
A SHORT, BRASH SOLDIER-FOR-HIRE
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NAMED JOHN SMITH.
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SMITH ACTUALLY ARRIVED
IN THE NEW WORLD A PRISONER
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AFTER A CONFLICT AT SEA
LANDED HIM IN THE BRIG.
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BUT THE COLONY QUICKLY REALIZES
THEY NEED HIM TO SURVIVE.
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IT IS HIS SEARCH FOR FOOD
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THAT BRINGS THE ENGLISH
INTO CONTACT WITH POCAHONTAS.
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Townsend: IT WAS JOHN SMITH,
IN FACT, WHO MET HER.
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HE HAD GONE UP
THE CHICKAHOMINY RIVER,
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HOPING TO BE ABLE
TO TRADE FOR SOME CORN
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BECAUSE THE COLONISTS
WERE SO HUNGRY.
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Narrator: WITH JAMESTOWN
ON THE VERGE OF STARVATION,
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A DESPERATE SMITH TRAVELS
THROUGH UNEXPLORED TERRITORY
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AND IS SET UPON BY A GROUP
OF POWHATAN WARRIORS.
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Horn: JOHN SMITH WAS SOMEONE
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WHO NEVER LACKED
FOR, UM, SELF-CONFIDENCE.
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UM, HE BELIEVED HE KNEW BEST,
UH, ALMOST IN ANY SITUATION.
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HE'S TRYING TO HOLD THEM OFF
WITH HIS PISTOL.
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Narrator: DESPITE THE WEAPON,
HE'S FAR OUTNUMBERED.
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[GUNSHOT]
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[YELLING]
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THEY CAPTURE SMITH,
AND OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS,
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MARCH HIM FROM
VILLAGE TO VILLAGE,
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DISPLAYING HIM LIKE A CURIOSITY.
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[CHEERING AND YELLING]
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Townsend: HE WAS PARADED
AROUND AT VARIOUS VILLAGES
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BEFORE BEING TAKEN
TO WEROWOCOMOCO,
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WHICH MEANS KING'S HOUSE
OR CHIEF'S HOUSE.
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THAT'S WHERE POWHATAN,
POCAHONTAS' FATHER, LIVED
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AND WHERE SHE LIVED, TOO.
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♪
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Narrator: AT POWHATAN'S
WEROWOCOMOCO LONGHOUSE,
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HE IS BROUGHT BEFORE
THE GREAT CHIEF.
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IT'S A HISTORIC MEETING
OF CULTURES.
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Horn:
HE IS THE FIRST SETTLER
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TO REALLY, UM, INVOLVE HIMSELF
WITH, WITH THE CHIEFS.
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NO ONE HAD DONE IT
BEFORE HIM, NO.
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Narrator: AS A EUROPEAN,
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HE LIKELY WOULD HAVE
UNDERESTIMATED POWHATAN.
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Townsend:
WE HAVE EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE
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THAT A MAN LIKE, LIKE POWHATAN
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WAS EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT,
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EXTREMELY SHARP,
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WOULD HAVE HAD A HIGHER IQ THAN
YOUR AVERAGE PERSON ANYWHERE,
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INCLUDING YOUR AVERAGE PERSON
IN ENGLAND.
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♪
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Narrator: WHAT SMITH
SAYS HAPPENED NEXT
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IS THE GENESIS
OF THE POCAHONTAS LEGEND.
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John Smith: TWO GREAT STONES
WERE BROUGHT BEFORE POWHATAN.
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THEN AS MANY AS COULD
LAID HANDS ON HIM,
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DRAGGED HIM TO THEM,
219
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AND THERE ON LAID HIS HEAD,
220
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AND BEING READY
WITH THEIR CLUBS
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TO BEAT OUT HIS BRAINS.
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Narrator:
IT WAS TO BE AN EXECUTION.
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BUT JUST WHEN DEATH
SEEMED LIKE A CERTAINTY,
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HE WAS SAVED.
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John Smith: POCAHONTAS,
THE KING'S DEAREST DAUGHTER,
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WHEN NO ENTREATY COULD PREVAIL,
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GOT HIS HEAD IN HER ARMS,
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AND LAID HER OWN UPON HIS
TO SAVE HIM FROM DEATH.
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Narrator: SHE SAVES SMITH,
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AND WITH HIM,
THE COLONY ITSELF.
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THE LEGEND LASTS
THROUGH THE AGES.
232
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BUT IS IT EVEN TRUE?
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[DRUMMING]
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FOR THROWING HERSELF
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BETWEEN THE LEADER
OF THE JAMESTOWN COLONY
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AND A WARRIOR'S CLUB,
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POCAHONTAS BECOMES A BRIDGE
BETWEEN CULTURES
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AND A SAVIOR
OF THE FUTURE NATION.
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OR AT LEAST THAT'S HOW THE STORY
PLAYS IN THE MOVIES.
240
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AND THAT'S HOW IT'S ENSHRINED
IN THE VERY HEART OF DEMOCRACY,
241
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THE U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING.
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Cécile Ganteaume:
THE ROTUNDA OF THE U.S. CAPITOL
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WAS BUILT TO EVOKE
THE ROMAN PANTHEON,
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AND IT'S A VERY MAJESTIC PLACE.
245
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AND IN THE TOP OF THE DOME
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IS THE PAINTING, THE APOTHEOSIS
OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.
247
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AND THEN THREE IMAGES
OF POCAHONTAS
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ARE UNDER THAT PAINTING
OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.
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SO SHE'S IN A VERY, VERY
SIGNIFICANT PLACE.
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Narrator: MOST FAMOUSLY,
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SHE APPEARS IN THE FRIEZE
THAT ENCIRCLES THE DOME.
252
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Ganteaume: THE COLONY IS
THE FIRST PLACE IN THE NEW WORLD
253
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THAT REPRESENTATIVE FORM
OF GOVERNMENT TAKES ROOT.
254
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AND SO THAT MORPHS
INTO POCAHONTAS SAVING
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THE BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY.
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Narrator: ACCORDING TO LEGEND,
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WITHOUT POCAHONTAS, THE CAPITOL
ITSELF MIGHT NOT EXIST.
258
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THE STORY IS PART
OF THE COUNTRY'S DNA.
259
00:13:16,519 --> 00:13:19,740
BUT DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?
260
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Townsend: JOHN SMITH SENT
A REPORT HOME TO ENGLAND
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AS SOON AS HE WAS RELEASED,
A COUPLE MONTHS LATER,
262
00:13:24,286 --> 00:13:26,184
AND HE NEVER SAID
ANYTHING ABOUT THAT AT ALL.
263
00:13:26,219 --> 00:13:27,841
IN FACT, HE SAID
THAT THEY TREATED HIM
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WITH WHAT KINDNESS THEY COULD,
WAS A QUOTE,
265
00:13:30,568 --> 00:13:32,984
AND CLEARLY WANTED
TO NEGOTIATE WITH HIM,
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FORM SOME SORT OF
TRADE RELATIONSHIP.
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Narrator: IT'S POSSIBLE
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THAT SMITH MISINTERPRETED
AN ADOPTION CEREMONY
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AS AN EXECUTION.
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Horn: ANOTHER THEORY
IS THAT HE WAS BEING TESTED BY,
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BY INDIAN PRIESTS AS TO WHETHER
HE WAS WORTHY OF BEING SAVED.
272
00:13:50,899 --> 00:13:54,316
AND THIS CULMINATES
WHEN HE REACHES WEROWOCOMOCO
273
00:13:54,350 --> 00:13:58,285
BECAUSE POWHATAN OFFERS
TO ADOPT HIM AS A POWHATAN,
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THE ELITE GROUP
OF THIS CHIEFDOM.
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Penney: HIS CAPTURE
AND THEN HIS RELEASE
276
00:14:03,670 --> 00:14:05,914
WAS AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE HIM
A KIND OF CAPTAIN
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00:14:05,948 --> 00:14:08,571
OR A MEMBER OF THE CONFEDERACY
278
00:14:08,606 --> 00:14:12,230
TO TRY TO BRING JAMESTOWN
UNDER THE RULE OF POWHATAN.
279
00:14:12,580 --> 00:14:14,600
Atkins:
AFTER JOHN SMITH IS SAVED,
280
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POWHATAN REFERS TO HIM AS "SON."
281
00:14:16,545 --> 00:14:20,411
AND SOME HAVE ARGUED
THAT THAT WAS HIS WAY
282
00:14:20,445 --> 00:14:22,330
OF INITIATING SMITH
283
00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,312
INTO THIS KIND OF
POWHATAN SYSTEM OF HIERARCHY
284
00:14:25,347 --> 00:14:28,453
WHERE JOHN SMITH IS NOW HIS SON,
285
00:14:28,488 --> 00:14:30,110
POWHATAN IS HIS FATHER.
286
00:14:30,145 --> 00:14:33,424
YOU ARE SUBSERVIENT
TO YOUR FATHER, RIGHT?
287
00:14:33,458 --> 00:14:36,470
Narrator: ADOPTING SMITH
WOULD MAKE PERFECT SENSE
288
00:14:36,820 --> 00:14:38,532
FOR A SHREWD LEADER
LIKE POWHATAN.
289
00:14:38,567 --> 00:14:44,469
Horn: JOHN SMITH IS GOING TO BE
A VALUABLE ALLY OF THE POWHATANS
290
00:14:44,504 --> 00:14:46,920
WITHIN JAMES FORT.
291
00:14:46,955 --> 00:14:50,610
THEY WANT TO TURN, IF YOU LIKE,
292
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ONE OF THE LEADERS
TO THEIR CAUSE.
293
00:14:54,410 --> 00:14:56,930
Narrator: CEREMONY OR EXECUTION,
294
00:14:56,965 --> 00:14:58,104
HISTORIANS DON'T BELIEVE
295
00:14:58,138 --> 00:15:01,555
POCAHONTAS
WOULD HAVE BEEN PRESENT.
296
00:15:01,590 --> 00:15:03,740
Penney: EXPERTS INSIST
297
00:15:03,109 --> 00:15:05,421
THAT SHE WAS FAR TOO YOUNG
AS A YOUNG WOMAN
298
00:15:05,456 --> 00:15:07,354
TO PARTICIPATE
IN CEREMONIES LIKE THAT.
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UM, SO VERY LIKELY,
FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE,
300
00:15:10,633 --> 00:15:13,840
SHE DIDN'T PARTICIPATE.
301
00:15:13,119 --> 00:15:14,706
Narrator: IF IT HAPPENED AT ALL,
302
00:15:14,741 --> 00:15:19,539
SMITH KEPT THE LIFE-SAVING STORY
UNDER WRAPS FOR DECADES.
303
00:15:19,573 --> 00:15:22,930
ALTHOUGH HE PUBLISHED ABOUT
HIS VIRGINIA ADVENTURES
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IN 1608 AND 1612,
305
00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,169
IT DOESN'T APPEAR IN PRINT
UNTIL HIS 1624 BOOK,
306
00:15:29,204 --> 00:15:31,171
"GENERALL
HISTORIE OF VIRGINIA."
307
00:15:31,206 --> 00:15:32,345
Townsend: ONLY YEARS LATER,
308
00:15:32,379 --> 00:15:34,243
WHEN ALL THE PRINCIPALS
WERE DEAD,
309
00:15:34,278 --> 00:15:36,245
DID HE COME UP WITH THAT STORY.
310
00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:39,283
NOBODY WAS LEFT
TO CONTRADICT IT.
311
00:15:39,317 --> 00:15:43,183
Narrator: HE ALSO SPINS
THE ROMANTIC TALE.
312
00:15:43,218 --> 00:15:46,669
Smith: WOULDN'T IT BE COOL IF
THE DAUGHTER OF THE INDIAN GUY
313
00:15:46,704 --> 00:15:51,122
FELL IN LOVE WITH THE LEADER
OF THE ENGLISH COLONY
314
00:15:51,157 --> 00:15:55,161
AND THEY HAD THIS HOT ROMANCE
AND LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER?
315
00:15:57,957 --> 00:16:00,373
Narrator:
FROM A LITERARY POINT OF VIEW,
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00:16:00,407 --> 00:16:02,409
IT MAKES A MUCH BETTER STORY.
317
00:16:04,204 --> 00:16:08,415
OF COURSE,
SHE WAS AROUND 11 YEARS OLD.
318
00:16:08,450 --> 00:16:11,400
HE WAS 27.
319
00:16:11,390 --> 00:16:12,557
Penney: THEY CERTAINLY
KNEW OF EACH OTHER,
320
00:16:12,592 --> 00:16:14,697
BUT THE ROMANCE BETWEEN THEM
321
00:16:14,732 --> 00:16:19,116
VERY LIKELY WAS TOTAL FICTION
ON JOHN SMITH'S PART.
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00:16:19,150 --> 00:16:20,669
Narrator: IN FACT,
323
00:16:20,703 --> 00:16:24,397
SMITH HAS A HISTORY OF
FICTIONALIZING HIS ADVENTURES.
324
00:16:24,431 --> 00:16:28,297
Ganteaume: TODAY, CAPTAIN SMITH
IS CONSIDERED A FABULIST,
325
00:16:28,332 --> 00:16:32,301
THAT HE EXAGGERATED
A LOT OF HIS TALES.
326
00:16:32,336 --> 00:16:34,234
Narrator: HE'D TOLD
THE IDENTICAL STORY
327
00:16:34,269 --> 00:16:36,650
MORE THAN ONCE BEFORE.
328
00:16:36,685 --> 00:16:38,756
Ganteaume:
TALES ABOUT PRINCESSES,
329
00:16:38,790 --> 00:16:41,655
YOUNG WOMEN
IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD
330
00:16:41,690 --> 00:16:44,370
ALSO COMING IN
AND SAVING HIS LIFE
331
00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,386
JUST WHEN HE WAS
ABOUT TO BE DISPATCHED.
332
00:16:48,421 --> 00:16:50,423
Narrator:
BUT TRUTH OR INVENTION,
333
00:16:50,457 --> 00:16:53,460
THE STORY OF POCAHONTAS
SAVING HIS LIFE
334
00:16:53,810 --> 00:16:57,188
TAKES ON A LIFE OF ITS OWN.
335
00:16:57,223 --> 00:16:58,672
A CENTURY AND A HALF LATER,
336
00:16:58,707 --> 00:17:01,641
WHEN AMERICA ACHIEVES
INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITAIN,
337
00:17:01,675 --> 00:17:04,570
IT'S BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT.
338
00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:06,404
Penney: THE UNITED STATES
WANTED TO DEFINE THEMSELVES
339
00:17:06,439 --> 00:17:09,718
IN CONTRAST TO
THEIR EUROPEAN ORIGINS.
340
00:17:09,752 --> 00:17:12,376
HOW ARE WE AMERICAN
AND HOW ARE WE DIFFERENT
341
00:17:12,410 --> 00:17:15,137
FROM OUR EUROPEAN FOUNDATIONS?
342
00:17:15,172 --> 00:17:17,588
AMERICAN INDIANS
PROVIDED, YOU KNOW,
343
00:17:17,622 --> 00:17:21,661
A KIND OF A ROUTE, A PATHWAY.
344
00:17:21,695 --> 00:17:23,180
Narrator: FROM THEN ON,
345
00:17:23,214 --> 00:17:25,320
IT IS TAUGHT TO
GENERATION AFTER GENERATION
346
00:17:25,354 --> 00:17:28,668
OF AMERICAN SCHOOLCHILDREN.
347
00:17:28,702 --> 00:17:30,428
Townsend: NOAH WEBSTER
WROTE NOT ONLY A DICTIONARY
348
00:17:30,463 --> 00:17:32,223
BUT ALSO A TEXTBOOK.
349
00:17:32,258 --> 00:17:34,536
AND THAT TEXTBOOK WAS USED
IN MOST OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS,
350
00:17:34,570 --> 00:17:37,401
AND SO THEY ALL GOT TO KNOW
THE STORY OF THIS POCAHONTAS
351
00:17:37,435 --> 00:17:40,473
WHO HAD LOVED WHITE MEN SO MUCH,
ESPECIALLY JOHN SMITH,
352
00:17:40,507 --> 00:17:43,648
AND HAD THROWN HERSELF
OVER HIS BODY TO SAVE HIM.
353
00:17:43,683 --> 00:17:46,237
AND ONCE A WHOLE GENERATION
IS TOLD A STORY THAT THEY LOVE,
354
00:17:46,272 --> 00:17:47,652
IT TENDS TO LAST.
355
00:17:47,687 --> 00:17:50,345
AND THIS ONE LASTED
ALL THROUGH THE YEARS.
356
00:17:53,796 --> 00:17:57,662
Narrator: SO IS THE STORY
OF POCAHONTAS ALL A MYTH?
357
00:17:57,697 --> 00:17:59,837
NOT EXACTLY.
358
00:17:59,871 --> 00:18:02,909
SHE PROBABLY
DIDN'T SAVE SMITH'S LIFE,
359
00:18:02,943 --> 00:18:05,636
BUT SHE DID HELP SAVE
THE COLONY ITSELF.
360
00:18:07,948 --> 00:18:12,850
SHE FREQUENTLY DELIVERS
MUCH-NEEDED FOOD TO THE FORT.
361
00:18:12,884 --> 00:18:16,785
AND SHE QUICKLY
BECOMES BILINGUAL.
362
00:18:16,819 --> 00:18:18,235
Townsend:
THERE IS REAL EVIDENCE
363
00:18:18,269 --> 00:18:20,444
THAT SHE WAS FUNCTIONING
AS A TRANSLATOR,
364
00:18:20,478 --> 00:18:23,412
AS A USEFUL AND SUCCESSFUL
TRANSLATOR WITHIN MONTHS.
365
00:18:25,173 --> 00:18:27,347
Horn: LANGUAGE IS CRITICAL.
366
00:18:27,382 --> 00:18:32,870
EARLY ON THERE, THERE WAS
A GOOD DEAL OF MISUNDERSTANDING.
367
00:18:32,904 --> 00:18:36,839
UH, SIGN LANGUAGE HAS GOT
LIMITS, OBVIOUSLY.
368
00:18:36,874 --> 00:18:40,602
Townsend: JOHN SMITH RECORDED A
SORT OF SET OF LANGUAGE LESSONS
369
00:18:40,636 --> 00:18:42,121
THAT HE HAD HAD WITH HER--
370
00:18:42,155 --> 00:18:44,295
SIMPLE PHRASES
AND THEN SIMPLE SENTENCES
371
00:18:44,330 --> 00:18:46,849
IN THE ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGE
THAT THE POWHATANS SPOKE.
372
00:18:46,884 --> 00:18:50,163
AND IN THESE SENTENCES,
HE MENTIONS POCAHONTAS.
373
00:18:50,198 --> 00:18:53,442
SO HE WILL SAY, POCAHONTAS SAYS
BRING ME TWO BASKETS.
374
00:18:53,477 --> 00:18:55,272
AND THEN HE WILL WRITE
THOSE SAME WORDS
375
00:18:55,306 --> 00:18:58,309
IN THE ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGE
THAT SHE WAS TEACHING HIM.
376
00:18:58,344 --> 00:19:00,622
[POCAHONTAS
SPEAKS ALGONQUIAN WORD]
377
00:19:00,656 --> 00:19:03,314
[SMITH REPEATS
ALGONQUIAN WORD]
378
00:19:03,349 --> 00:19:05,454
[POCAHONTAS
REPEATS ALGONQUIAN WORD]
379
00:19:05,489 --> 00:19:08,216
Narrator: THE WRITTEN RECORD
OF THEIR LANGUAGE LESSONS
380
00:19:08,250 --> 00:19:11,598
ARE THE ONLY SENTENCES OF THE
NOW EXTINCT ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGE
381
00:19:11,633 --> 00:19:14,360
THAT SURVIVE.
382
00:19:14,394 --> 00:19:18,674
IT WAS ALSO A MATTER OF SURVIVAL
FOR JOHN SMITH.
383
00:19:18,709 --> 00:19:22,368
Horn: SMITH IS LEVERAGING
THIS POSITION
384
00:19:22,402 --> 00:19:26,372
WHEREBY HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO
CAN TALK TO THE GREAT CHIEF
385
00:19:26,406 --> 00:19:31,204
AND THEREFORE LEVERAGE HIS
POSITION AMONGST THE ENGLISH.
386
00:19:31,239 --> 00:19:33,448
SO THE RISE AND FALL
OF JOHN SMITH
387
00:19:33,482 --> 00:19:36,244
IS INTIMATELY
CONNECTED WITH LANGUAGE
388
00:19:36,278 --> 00:19:39,868
AND HIS ABILITY
TO SPEAK ALGONQUIAN
389
00:19:39,902 --> 00:19:43,389
AND HIS RELATIONSHIP
WITH, WITH POWHATAN
390
00:19:43,423 --> 00:19:45,839
AND WITH POCAHONTAS.
391
00:19:47,738 --> 00:19:49,395
Narrator: FOR HER PART,
392
00:19:49,429 --> 00:19:52,329
POCAHONTAS BECOMES A CRUCIAL
FIGURE IN JAMESTOWN--
393
00:19:52,363 --> 00:19:54,434
A CHILD AMBASSADOR
FROM THE TRIBE
394
00:19:54,469 --> 00:19:58,266
WHOSE GOODWILL
IS KEEPING THE COLONISTS ALIVE.
395
00:19:58,300 --> 00:19:59,405
Townsend:
ALL THE ENGLISH AT THE FORT,
396
00:19:59,439 --> 00:20:00,923
AT THE JAMESTOWN FORT,
397
00:20:00,958 --> 00:20:03,305
KNEW HER, KNEW ABOUT HER.
398
00:20:03,340 --> 00:20:05,618
SHE WAS A FAMOUS INDIAN TO THEM.
399
00:20:05,652 --> 00:20:08,276
NOT QUITE SO FAMOUS
AS HER FATHER, FATHER, POWHATAN,
400
00:20:08,310 --> 00:20:10,554
BUT WELL KNOWN TO THEM
NONETHELESS.
401
00:20:12,763 --> 00:20:14,282
Narrator: FOR ONE THING,
402
00:20:14,316 --> 00:20:16,456
NUMEROUS ACCOUNTS
FROM JAMESTOWN COLONISTS
403
00:20:16,491 --> 00:20:18,527
TELL US SHE WAS FAMOUS
FOR HER CARTWHEELS.
404
00:20:22,255 --> 00:20:25,569
BUT THE DAYS OF PLAYING
IN THE SUNSHINE WON'T LAST.
405
00:20:29,228 --> 00:20:31,506
FROM THE ORIGINAL 104 SETTLERS,
406
00:20:31,540 --> 00:20:34,992
ONLY 38 REMAIN
BY THE END OF 1607.
407
00:20:37,650 --> 00:20:40,963
A RESUPPLY SHIP
BRINGS NEW BLOOD AND FOOD,
408
00:20:40,998 --> 00:20:44,898
BUT MUCH IS LOST IN A FIRE
IN EARLY 1608.
409
00:20:46,383 --> 00:20:48,868
A YEAR AFTER ARRIVING
IN JAMESTOWN,
410
00:20:48,902 --> 00:20:52,699
THE ENGLISH STILL DON'T SEEM
LIKE A THREAT TO THE POWHATAN.
411
00:20:52,734 --> 00:20:53,804
BUT THEY ARE ONE.
412
00:20:55,323 --> 00:20:57,566
♪
413
00:20:57,601 --> 00:20:59,430
Narrator:
JOHN SMITH AND POCAHONTAS
414
00:20:59,465 --> 00:21:02,364
HAVE BECOME POP CULTURE ICONS.
415
00:21:02,399 --> 00:21:06,299
Al Jolson: ♪ NOW HERE'S
WHAT I'D LIKE TO KNOW ♪
416
00:21:06,334 --> 00:21:10,303
♪ WHO PLAYED POKER
WITH POCAHONTAS ♪
417
00:21:10,338 --> 00:21:14,310
♪ WHEN JOHN SMITH WENT AWAY?
418
00:21:14,650 --> 00:21:16,330
♪
419
00:21:18,311 --> 00:21:20,382
Narrator:
BUT WHAT REALLY SEPARATES THEM
420
00:21:20,417 --> 00:21:21,763
IS NOT VERY FUNNY.
421
00:21:23,592 --> 00:21:27,734
IN 1608, SMITH BECOMES
PRESIDENT OF THE COLONY.
422
00:21:27,769 --> 00:21:31,393
HE RUNS A TIGHT SHIP.
423
00:21:31,428 --> 00:21:34,293
John Smith: HE THAT
WILL NOT WORK SHALL NOT EAT.
424
00:21:37,572 --> 00:21:40,506
Narrator: HE HAS NEGOTIATED
A TENUOUS PEACE
425
00:21:40,540 --> 00:21:43,716
AND THE ALL-IMPORTANT SUPPLY
OF FOOD WITH THE POWHATAN.
426
00:21:45,787 --> 00:21:50,619
BUT HE CAN'T GIVE THE INDIANS
THE ONE THING THEY REALLY WANT.
427
00:21:50,654 --> 00:21:52,340
Horn: WHAT THEY WANT
FROM THE ENGLISH
428
00:21:52,690 --> 00:21:53,795
IS ENGLISH WEAPONRY.
429
00:21:53,829 --> 00:21:56,763
COPPER AS WELL,
BUT PRIMARILY WEAPONRY,
430
00:21:56,798 --> 00:21:59,766
AND NOT JUST
STEEL-EDGED WEAPONS.
431
00:21:59,801 --> 00:22:03,563
UM, NOT JUST SWORDS
AND POLEAXES AND SO ON.
432
00:22:03,598 --> 00:22:04,909
THEY WANT FIREARMS.
433
00:22:04,944 --> 00:22:06,601
[GUNSHOT]
434
00:22:06,635 --> 00:22:10,432
THEY WANT CANNON, AND THEY WANT
MUSKETS AND PISTOLS.
435
00:22:10,467 --> 00:22:12,365
Narrator: NATURALLY,
436
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,541
THE VIRGINIA COMPANY'S CHARTER
FORBIDS THIS.
437
00:22:15,575 --> 00:22:16,921
Horn: BECAUSE HE CAN'T DELIVER,
438
00:22:16,956 --> 00:22:18,820
THOSE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
439
00:22:18,854 --> 00:22:22,893
THAT SMITH HAD BUILT
HIS FORTUNES AROUND BROKE DOWN.
440
00:22:22,927 --> 00:22:25,516
THAT WAS THE END
OF HIS PREEMINENCE, REALLY,
441
00:22:25,551 --> 00:22:27,415
IN THE COLONY.
442
00:22:28,933 --> 00:22:31,591
Narrator: NEVER WELL-LIKED,
HIS HARD-LINE LEADERSHIP
443
00:22:31,626 --> 00:22:35,733
RESULTS IN MORE THAN
ONE ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE.
444
00:22:35,768 --> 00:22:39,323
HE SURVIVES BUT IS INJURED.
445
00:22:39,358 --> 00:22:41,140
Townsend: HE WAS LOSING
POPULARITY AMONG THE MEN.
446
00:22:41,490 --> 00:22:45,709
IT WAS TIME TO GO HOME
FOR POLITICAL REASONS.
447
00:22:45,743 --> 00:22:49,713
Narrator: NURSING HIS WOUNDS,
HE SETS SAIL TO ENGLAND.
448
00:22:49,747 --> 00:22:52,750
POCAHONTAS IS TOLD HE HAS DIED,
449
00:22:52,785 --> 00:22:55,926
AND HER VISITS TO JAMESTOWN
COME TO AN END.
450
00:22:59,136 --> 00:23:00,965
FOLLOWING SMITH'S DEPARTURE,
451
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,624
CONDITIONS IN JAMES FORT
AGAIN GROW DESPERATE.
452
00:23:09,491 --> 00:23:12,391
Townsend: THE WHITE PEOPLE
HAD WORN OUT THEIR WELCOME.
453
00:23:12,425 --> 00:23:14,979
THE INDIANS WERE
NO LONGER BRINGING CORN
454
00:23:15,140 --> 00:23:19,156
AND OTHER FOODSTUFFS,
EITHER AS GIFTS OR EVEN TO SELL.
455
00:23:19,190 --> 00:23:21,641
UM, AND IN FACT THE INDIANS
SOMETIMES WERE ATTACKING THEM
456
00:23:21,676 --> 00:23:23,220
WHEN THEY LEFT THE FORT.
457
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,128
SO THE ENGLISH
COULDN'T EVEN PLANT CROPS
458
00:23:26,163 --> 00:23:28,545
AND TRY TO LIVE ON THAT.
459
00:23:28,579 --> 00:23:30,547
Narrator: IN 1609,
460
00:23:30,581 --> 00:23:33,688
THEIR SALVATION SETS SAIL
FROM ENGLAND--
461
00:23:33,722 --> 00:23:36,484
A GREAT FLEET
CARRYING 500 MORE SETTLERS
462
00:23:36,518 --> 00:23:39,659
AND SUPPLIES FOR ALL.
463
00:23:39,694 --> 00:23:42,421
BUT NOTHING GOES
ACCORDING TO PLAN.
464
00:23:44,733 --> 00:23:49,945
Horn: THIS FLEET WAS CAUGHT
IN A HURRICANE IN THE ATLANTIC.
465
00:23:49,980 --> 00:23:53,880
MANY OF THE SHIPS WERE DAMAGED,
AND STORES WERE DAMAGED.
466
00:23:53,915 --> 00:23:56,849
SO 500 PEOPLE
ARRIVE AT JAMESTOWN
467
00:23:56,883 --> 00:23:59,161
WITHOUT SUFFICIENT PROVISIONS.
468
00:23:59,196 --> 00:24:01,992
AT THE SAME TIME,
THERE'D BEEN PLAGUE
469
00:24:02,260 --> 00:24:05,582
IN ONE OF THOSE SHIPS
THAT ARRIVED,
470
00:24:05,616 --> 00:24:07,998
SO YOU HAVE LACK OF PROVISIONS,
471
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,829
DISEASE THAT SWEPT
THROUGH JAMESTOWN,
472
00:24:11,864 --> 00:24:14,625
AND THEN INDIAN PEOPLES
CHOOSE THAT MOMENT
473
00:24:14,660 --> 00:24:19,181
TO...TO ATTACK THE ENGLISH
TO GET RID OF THEM.
474
00:24:19,216 --> 00:24:22,633
SO YOU HAVE A TRIFECTA,
REALLY, OF DISASTERS.
475
00:24:23,910 --> 00:24:26,603
Narrator:
AS COLD TURNS TO FREEZING,
476
00:24:26,637 --> 00:24:29,916
HUNGER TURNS TO STARVATION.
477
00:24:29,951 --> 00:24:31,470
THEY EAT RATS.
478
00:24:31,504 --> 00:24:35,128
THEY BOIL AND EAT
THEIR BELTS AND SHOES,
479
00:24:35,163 --> 00:24:38,131
AND WHEN THOSE ARE GONE,
480
00:24:38,166 --> 00:24:40,927
THEY ARE FORCED
INTO A DARKER CORNER.
481
00:24:40,962 --> 00:24:47,865
♪
482
00:24:47,900 --> 00:24:51,490
THE 2012 DISCOVERY
OF A COLONIST'S SKULL--
483
00:24:51,524 --> 00:24:53,181
A TEENAGE GIRL--
484
00:24:53,215 --> 00:24:58,842
LED JAMESTOWN ARCHEOLOGISTS
TO A GRISLY REALITY.
485
00:24:58,876 --> 00:25:01,741
SHE HAD BEEN EATEN.
486
00:25:01,776 --> 00:25:03,870
Doug Owsley:
I'VE SEEN CANNIBALISM
487
00:25:03,122 --> 00:25:04,951
IN MANY DIFFERENT
SITUATIONS, ACTUALLY,
488
00:25:04,986 --> 00:25:06,953
IN NORTH AMERICA, PREHISTORIC
NORTH AMERICA, FOR INSTANCE,
489
00:25:06,988 --> 00:25:10,923
AND THERE'S JUST NO DOUBT
THAT THAT OCCURRED.
490
00:25:10,957 --> 00:25:13,132
Narrator: THIS WASN'T MURDER.
491
00:25:13,166 --> 00:25:16,722
THE GIRL, RECONSTRUCTED HERE,
WAS ALREADY DEAD
492
00:25:16,756 --> 00:25:20,553
WHEN SOME UNKNOWN
STARVING SETTLERS CONSUMED HER.
493
00:25:20,588 --> 00:25:23,730
Owsley: THERE ARE CHOPS HERE,
FOUR TO THE FOREHEAD,
494
00:25:23,107 --> 00:25:24,661
THAT ARE VERY TENTATIVE
495
00:25:24,695 --> 00:25:25,903
IN THE SENSE THAT
THEY DO CUT INTO THE BONE,
496
00:25:25,938 --> 00:25:27,664
BUT THEY DON'T GO VERY DEEP.
497
00:25:27,698 --> 00:25:29,769
IT'S NOT SOMETHING
THAT THE PERSON WAS ALIVE,
498
00:25:29,804 --> 00:25:33,773
BECAUSE YOU WOULD NEVER GET
SUCH CLOSELY SPACED CHOPS.
499
00:25:33,808 --> 00:25:37,180
Narrator: IT'S THE FIRST KNOWN
EVIDENCE OF SURVIVAL CANNIBALISM
500
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,608
IN NORTH AMERICA.
501
00:25:40,642 --> 00:25:45,302
Owsley: IT COMPLETELY SPEAKS TO
JUST HOW HORRIBLE THE TIME WAS
502
00:25:45,336 --> 00:25:47,580
AND THE FACT THAT THEY
JUST HAD NOTHING TO EAT.
503
00:25:47,615 --> 00:25:48,788
[SOBBING]
504
00:25:50,825 --> 00:25:52,240
Narrator: BY THE END OF WINTER,
505
00:25:52,274 --> 00:25:56,865
MORE THAN 150 ENGLISH--
NEARLY 75% OF THE COLONY--
506
00:25:56,900 --> 00:25:58,280
ARE GONE.
507
00:26:01,870 --> 00:26:06,288
60-SOME DESPERATE COLONISTS
ABANDON THE FORT,
508
00:26:06,323 --> 00:26:10,850
ONLY TO BE TURNED AROUND
BY ANOTHER SHIP FROM ENGLAND
509
00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:11,362
AND A NEW GOVERNOR,
510
00:26:11,397 --> 00:26:13,848
LORD DE LA WARR.
511
00:26:13,882 --> 00:26:17,230
HIS SUPPLIES
RESURRECT THE COLONY,
512
00:26:17,265 --> 00:26:19,301
BUT OPEN WARFARE
WITH THE INDIANS
513
00:26:19,336 --> 00:26:21,925
NOW THREATENS ITS SURVIVAL.
514
00:26:21,959 --> 00:26:23,290
Man: AND FIRE!
515
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,861
[GUNFIRE]
516
00:26:26,895 --> 00:26:31,969
IN 1613, POCAHONTAS,
NOW A GROWN WOMAN OF 16,
517
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,352
ONCE AGAIN BECOMES THE COLONY'S
UNLIKELY SAVIOR.
518
00:26:35,386 --> 00:26:40,702
♪
519
00:26:40,737 --> 00:26:43,187
SHE'S VISITING
THE NEARBY PATOWOMECK TRIBE
520
00:26:43,222 --> 00:26:44,948
WHEN HER INDIAN HOSTS,
521
00:26:44,982 --> 00:26:47,916
THREATENED WITH WAR
BY AN ENGLISH SHIP CAPTAIN,
522
00:26:47,951 --> 00:26:52,956
LURE HER ONTO HIS VESSEL
AND BETRAY HER.
523
00:26:52,990 --> 00:26:55,303
Penney:
THE KIDNAPPING OF POCAHONTAS
524
00:26:55,337 --> 00:26:57,201
IS PLOTTED AND ACHIEVED
525
00:26:57,236 --> 00:26:59,272
AS A PART OF CREATING
THIS KIND OF LEVERAGE
526
00:26:59,307 --> 00:27:01,102
OVER THE POWHATAN CONFEDERACY
527
00:27:01,136 --> 00:27:03,932
IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN A CERTAIN
AMOUNT OF STABILITY AND PEACE
528
00:27:03,967 --> 00:27:09,386
AND ALSO TO MAINTAIN THE TRADE,
WHICH FOR JAMESTOWN MEANS FOOD.
529
00:27:09,420 --> 00:27:11,215
Narrator:
POCAHONTAS IS THE CURRENCY
530
00:27:11,250 --> 00:27:14,909
THAT PAYS FOR
THE COLONY'S SURVIVAL.
531
00:27:14,943 --> 00:27:18,706
SHE IS HELD PRISONER
ABOARD SHIP FOR DAYS,
532
00:27:18,740 --> 00:27:22,226
THEN MARCHED FROM THE PORT
THROUGH THE GATES OF JAMES FORT.
533
00:27:25,367 --> 00:27:27,680
THE PLACE SHE PLAYED AS A CHILD
534
00:27:27,715 --> 00:27:30,269
IS NOW A VILLAGE
OF UNFAMILIAR FACES.
535
00:27:30,303 --> 00:27:38,726
♪
536
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:43,731
THE ENGLISH DEMAND A RANSOM
OF HOSTAGES AND STOLEN WEAPONS,
537
00:27:43,765 --> 00:27:46,699
WHICH GOES ONLY PARTIALLY PAID.
538
00:27:46,734 --> 00:27:49,909
NEGOTIATIONS WILL DRAG ON
FOR MORE THAN A YEAR.
539
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,916
INSIDE THE FORT WALLS,
IN THIS ENGLISH WORLD,
540
00:27:56,951 --> 00:28:01,852
POCAHONTAS, THE POWHATAN WOMAN,
IS REMADE,
541
00:28:01,887 --> 00:28:04,821
AT LEAST ON THE SURFACE.
542
00:28:04,855 --> 00:28:08,307
Ganteaume: WE DON'T KNOW
WHAT WAS GOING ON IN HER HEAD.
543
00:28:08,341 --> 00:28:11,172
SHE WAS INVOLVED
IN ALL THESE INCREDIBLE EVENTS
544
00:28:11,206 --> 00:28:13,830
DURING A VERY
MOMENTOUS TIME IN HISTORY,
545
00:28:13,864 --> 00:28:18,420
BUT WE DO NOT KNOW
WHAT SHE WAS THINKING.
546
00:28:18,455 --> 00:28:21,734
Narrator: WE DO KNOW
WHAT SHE MEANT TO THE COLONY.
547
00:28:21,769 --> 00:28:23,805
Horn: POCAHONTAS,
548
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:25,807
HER STATUS AS THE DAUGHTER
OF THE GREAT CHIEF
549
00:28:25,842 --> 00:28:30,191
IS, IS HUGELY IMPORTANT
TO THE ENGLISH.
550
00:28:30,225 --> 00:28:33,210
Narrator: SHE'S IMPORTANT
AS A PIECE OF COLLATERAL,
551
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:38,820
BUT SHE'S ALSO SEEN
AS A SOUL RIPE FOR CONVERSION.
552
00:28:38,855 --> 00:28:41,305
Horn: THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
WAS ONLY 50 YEARS OLD
553
00:28:41,340 --> 00:28:44,412
AT THE TIME
OF THE FOUNDING OF VIRGINIA.
554
00:28:44,446 --> 00:28:46,310
IT WAS WELL KNOWN
THAT THE SPANISH
555
00:28:46,345 --> 00:28:51,740
HAD CONVERTED MILLIONS
OF INDIAN PEOPLES TO CATHOLICISM
556
00:28:51,108 --> 00:28:53,248
IN SOUTH AMERICA
AND MIDDLE AMERICA.
557
00:28:53,283 --> 00:28:56,838
NORTH AMERICA WAS TO BE ENGLISH,
AND IT WAS TO BE ANGLICAN.
558
00:28:56,873 --> 00:28:59,254
IT WAS TO BE PROTESTANT.
559
00:28:59,289 --> 00:29:01,429
BUILDING THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
560
00:29:01,463 --> 00:29:05,190
BY BRINGING IN
THE ENTIRE POWHATAN NATION
561
00:29:05,530 --> 00:29:06,779
WAS THE FIRST STEP
562
00:29:06,814 --> 00:29:10,580
TO CONVERTING ALL INDIAN PEOPLES
IN NORTH AMERICA
563
00:29:10,930 --> 00:29:13,610
TO THE ANGLICAN CHURCH.
564
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,375
Narrator: BAPTIZING POCAHONTAS
WAS THE FIRST STEP
565
00:29:16,409 --> 00:29:19,102
IN CONVERTING
THE POWHATAN NATION.
566
00:29:21,345 --> 00:29:23,865
Horn: THAT'S WHY
IT WAS IMPORTANT
567
00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:27,455
THAT SHE WAS DIRECTLY RELATED
TO THE GREAT CHIEF.
568
00:29:29,940 --> 00:29:32,110
Narrator:
OVER THE MONTHS IN CAPTIVITY,
569
00:29:32,460 --> 00:29:34,324
SHE'S INSTRUCTED
IN THE ANGLICAN FAITH,
570
00:29:34,358 --> 00:29:36,982
AND SHE BECOMES
THE FIRST INDIGENOUS PERSON
571
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:42,332
TO CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY
IN THE ENGLISH NEW WORLD.
572
00:29:42,366 --> 00:29:45,231
SHE IS BAPTIZED "REBECCA."
573
00:29:47,302 --> 00:29:50,789
A SOUL SAVED
THAT HELPED THE ENGLISH JUSTIFY
574
00:29:50,823 --> 00:29:53,205
THE MORAL CORRECTNESS
OF COLONIZATION.
575
00:29:53,239 --> 00:29:55,483
Pocahontas: ...UPON THE EARTH.
576
00:29:55,517 --> 00:29:59,730
Chief Robert Gray:
EUROPEANS AND CHRISTIANS
577
00:29:59,107 --> 00:30:01,213
LOVED THE IDEA
OF COMING OVER HERE
578
00:30:01,247 --> 00:30:07,460
TO SAVE THE POOR HEATHEN INDIANS
FROM THEMSELVES,
579
00:30:07,495 --> 00:30:09,152
SPREAD CHRISTIANITY,
580
00:30:09,186 --> 00:30:12,293
AND STEAL OUR LAND
AT THE SAME TIME.
581
00:30:12,327 --> 00:30:14,882
Narrator: WAS POCAHONTAS
HELPING THEM DO IT?
582
00:30:14,916 --> 00:30:16,400
WAS SHE TRULY DEVOUT?
583
00:30:16,435 --> 00:30:20,853
OR WAS SHE BRAINWASHED
BY HER KIDNAPPERS?
584
00:30:20,888 --> 00:30:22,199
Townsend: WAS SHE EXHIBITING
585
00:30:22,234 --> 00:30:24,290
SOMETHING LIKE
THE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME?
586
00:30:24,630 --> 00:30:28,861
THAT IS THAT SHE WAS, HAD BECOME
SO DISEMPOWERED, SO VICTIMIZED,
587
00:30:28,896 --> 00:30:31,208
THAT IN HER
PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVASTATION,
588
00:30:31,243 --> 00:30:33,107
SHE WAS IDENTIFYING
589
00:30:33,141 --> 00:30:37,352
WITH THE PEOPLE
WHO HAD POWER OVER HER.
590
00:30:37,387 --> 00:30:39,458
Narrator: THE SAME QUESTIONS
ARE ASKED AGAIN
591
00:30:39,492 --> 00:30:41,529
MORE THAN THREE CENTURIES LATER
592
00:30:41,563 --> 00:30:45,982
WITH THE KIDNAPPING
OF ANOTHER IMPORTANT DAUGHTER.
593
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,122
WHEN HEIRESS PATRICIA HEARST
IS CAPTURED
594
00:30:48,156 --> 00:30:51,401
BY A RADICAL LEFTIST GROUP
IN 1974,
595
00:30:51,435 --> 00:30:53,955
SHE APPEARS
TO JOIN THEIR CAUSE--
596
00:30:53,990 --> 00:30:56,475
EVEN HELPING THEM ROB A BANK--
597
00:30:56,509 --> 00:31:00,341
AND RAISES COMPARISONS
TO POCAHONTAS.
598
00:31:00,375 --> 00:31:03,680
Smith: THERE BECOME
THESE ANALYSES IN THE PRESS
599
00:31:03,102 --> 00:31:07,370
THAT TALK ABOUT, WELL, GEE,
POCAHONTAS WAS A DAUGHTER
600
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,453
OF A REALLY RICH
AND POWERFUL LEADER.
601
00:31:09,488 --> 00:31:11,386
SHE WAS KIDNAPPED,
602
00:31:11,421 --> 00:31:15,110
AND THEN WE DIDN'T QUITE KNOW
WHAT SIDE SHE WAS FOR.
603
00:31:15,450 --> 00:31:16,598
WAS SHE STILL WITH HER PEOPLE?
604
00:31:16,633 --> 00:31:18,946
WAS SHE FOR THE ENGLISH?
605
00:31:18,980 --> 00:31:22,535
[BELL TOLLING]
606
00:31:22,570 --> 00:31:24,434
Narrator: WE STILL DON'T KNOW,
607
00:31:24,468 --> 00:31:27,540
BUT THE WOMAN WHO IS BOTH
REBECCA AND MATOAKA,
608
00:31:27,575 --> 00:31:29,473
NICKNAMED POCAHONTAS,
609
00:31:29,508 --> 00:31:33,408
IS ABOUT TO MEET ANOTHER
ENGLISHMAN NAMED JOHN.
610
00:31:35,341 --> 00:31:40,415
UNLIKE JOHN SMITH,
THIS WOULD BE A REAL LOVE STORY.
611
00:31:41,347 --> 00:31:43,453
OR WOULD IT?
612
00:31:43,487 --> 00:31:45,489
[CROWD CHEERING]
613
00:31:45,524 --> 00:31:47,181
Narrator: ON THE SILVER SCREEN,
614
00:31:47,215 --> 00:31:50,184
THE ROMANCE OF POCAHONTAS
AND JOHN SMITH
615
00:31:50,218 --> 00:31:52,117
PLAYS LIKE A FAIRY TALE.
616
00:31:52,151 --> 00:31:57,881
♪
617
00:31:57,916 --> 00:32:01,126
IN REAL LIFE, THERE MAY
ALSO HAVE BEEN ROMANCE,
618
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,439
BUT WITH AN ENTIRELY
DIFFERENT SUITOR.
619
00:32:04,474 --> 00:32:06,476
WHILE A HOSTAGE IN JAMESTOWN,
620
00:32:06,510 --> 00:32:10,100
SHE MEETS A WEALTHY PLANTER
NAMED JOHN ROLFE.
621
00:32:10,135 --> 00:32:12,620
♪
622
00:32:12,654 --> 00:32:16,658
IN 1614, ROLFE WRITES
TO SIR THOMAS DALE,
623
00:32:16,693 --> 00:32:18,419
GOVERNOR OF THE COLONY,
624
00:32:18,453 --> 00:32:22,147
DECLARING AND DEFENDING
HIS LOVE FOR POCAHONTAS.
625
00:32:22,181 --> 00:32:24,321
♪
626
00:32:24,356 --> 00:32:27,140
John Rolfe: TO WHOM MY HEART
AND BEST THOUGHTS ARE,
627
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,637
AND HAVE LONG TIME BEEN
SO ENTANGLED,
628
00:32:29,671 --> 00:32:33,952
AND ENTHRALLED IN SO INTRICATE
A LABYRINTH.
629
00:32:35,263 --> 00:32:39,336
Narrator:
ROLFE IS CLEARLY SMITTEN.
630
00:32:39,371 --> 00:32:41,925
POCAHONTAS
MAY HAVE BEEN MOTIVATED
631
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,685
BY MORE DIPLOMATIC THINKING.
632
00:32:47,340 --> 00:32:49,243
HER FATHER
RULED OVER A CONFEDERACY
633
00:32:49,277 --> 00:32:52,315
FORMED BY MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCES,
634
00:32:52,349 --> 00:32:56,430
AND HE READILY AGREED
TO THE MATCH.
635
00:32:56,770 --> 00:32:58,286
Atkins:
THIS ALLIANCE THROUGH MARRIAGE
636
00:32:58,321 --> 00:32:59,667
WAS, I THINK, TWOFOLD:
637
00:32:59,701 --> 00:33:01,255
TO END THE WARFARE,
638
00:33:01,289 --> 00:33:04,189
BUT TO ALSO HELP POWHATAN HAVE
639
00:33:04,223 --> 00:33:08,987
MORE OF AN INFLUENCE
OVER THE COLONY.
640
00:33:09,210 --> 00:33:10,609
Horn: WAS IT A MARRIAGE
OF CONVENIENCE,
641
00:33:10,643 --> 00:33:13,370
THAT IT GUARANTEED HER SAFETY?
642
00:33:13,405 --> 00:33:15,441
DID SHE LOVE JOHN ROLFE?
643
00:33:15,476 --> 00:33:17,616
WHO KNOWS, REALLY?
644
00:33:20,412 --> 00:33:22,621
Narrator: THE GOVERNOR
GRANTS HIS PERMISSION,
645
00:33:22,655 --> 00:33:25,727
AND THEY MARRY ON APRIL 5, 1614.
646
00:33:25,762 --> 00:33:29,145
[APPLAUSE]
647
00:33:34,810 --> 00:33:35,461
IN 2010,
648
00:33:35,496 --> 00:33:40,604
ARCHEOLOGISTS DISCOVERED
THE SITE OF THE WEDDING.
649
00:33:40,639 --> 00:33:42,296
William Kelso:
IN OUR EXCAVATIONS IN THE FORT,
650
00:33:42,330 --> 00:33:43,676
WE FOUND VARIOUS BUILDING SITES,
651
00:33:43,711 --> 00:33:45,506
ONE OF WHICH
WAS THE FIRST CHURCH.
652
00:33:45,540 --> 00:33:52,640
AND IT WAS THERE THAT POCAHONTAS
WAS MARRIED IN 1614,
653
00:33:52,990 --> 00:33:54,660
AND ACCORDING TO THE CEREMONY,
654
00:33:54,101 --> 00:33:56,448
WE CAN TELL YOU EXACTLY
WHERE IN THE CHURCH SHE STOOD.
655
00:33:56,482 --> 00:33:59,106
NOW, I THINK THAT...
THAT GIVES ME THE GOOSEBUMPS.
656
00:34:01,798 --> 00:34:05,250
Narrator: TODAY, VISITORS CAN
STAND ON THE ACTUAL SPOT
657
00:34:05,284 --> 00:34:07,183
WHERE THE CEREMONY TOOK PLACE.
658
00:34:07,217 --> 00:34:10,772
♪
659
00:34:10,807 --> 00:34:13,465
ONCE VIRGINIA
IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED,
660
00:34:13,499 --> 00:34:17,538
THIS KIND OF INTERRACIAL UNION
WILL FIRST BECOME UNTHINKABLE
661
00:34:17,572 --> 00:34:20,161
AND THEN,
AFTER THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY,
662
00:34:20,196 --> 00:34:21,542
ILLEGAL.
663
00:34:23,544 --> 00:34:26,202
THREE AND A HALF
CENTURIES LATER,
664
00:34:26,236 --> 00:34:28,825
LESS THAN 100 MILES
FROM JAMESTOWN,
665
00:34:28,859 --> 00:34:31,724
ANOTHER COUPLE
WILL INVOKE POCAHONTAS
666
00:34:31,759 --> 00:34:34,382
AND CHALLENGE THAT LAW.
667
00:34:34,417 --> 00:34:36,740
MILDRED JETER,
668
00:34:36,108 --> 00:34:39,111
OF AFRICAN AMERICAN
AND NATIVE AMERICAN DESCENT,
669
00:34:39,146 --> 00:34:42,839
MARRIES RICHARD LOVING,
WHO IS WHITE.
670
00:34:42,873 --> 00:34:45,221
LIKE REBECCA AND JOHN ROLFE,
671
00:34:45,255 --> 00:34:47,257
THEIR WEDDING WILL MAKE HISTORY.
672
00:34:47,292 --> 00:34:48,776
Smith:
THESE ARE TWO OF THE MOST FAMOUS
673
00:34:48,810 --> 00:34:52,331
INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES,
YOU KNOW, IN NORTH AMERICA,
674
00:34:52,366 --> 00:34:54,816
AND WITH SUCH CONSEQUENCES.
675
00:34:54,851 --> 00:34:57,267
Narrator: THE LOVINGS
WERE JAILED FOR MARRYING
676
00:34:57,302 --> 00:35:00,408
AND FORCED TO LEAVE
THEIR HOME STATE.
677
00:35:00,443 --> 00:35:03,687
AT TRIAL, THE JUDGE DECLARED:
678
00:35:03,722 --> 00:35:06,276
Man: "ALMIGHTY GOD
CREATED THE RACES,
679
00:35:06,311 --> 00:35:09,417
WHITE, BLACK, YELLOW,
MALAY AND RED,
680
00:35:09,452 --> 00:35:12,558
AND HE PLACED THEM
ON SEPARATE CONTINENTS.
681
00:35:12,593 --> 00:35:14,664
THE FACT THAT HE SEPARATED
THE RACES
682
00:35:14,698 --> 00:35:19,738
SHOWS THAT HE DID NOT INTEND
FOR THEM TO MIX."
683
00:35:19,772 --> 00:35:22,637
Narrator: THE COUPLE TOOK THEIR
CASE TO THE SUPREME COURT,
684
00:35:22,672 --> 00:35:27,573
AND IN 1967, THE DECISION
IN LOVING V. VIRGINIA
685
00:35:27,608 --> 00:35:32,785
INVALIDATED THE PROHIBITION OF
INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE NATIONWIDE.
686
00:35:32,820 --> 00:35:35,857
Smith: IT'S REALLY POWERFUL
THAT, UM, HOW CENTRAL THAT WAS
687
00:35:35,892 --> 00:35:39,447
AND HOW APPROPRIATE IT WAS THAT
DECISION HAPPENED IN VIRGINIA.
688
00:35:39,482 --> 00:35:43,555
I THINK THAT'S REALLY
KIND OF PERFECT.
689
00:35:43,589 --> 00:35:45,212
Narrator: POCAHONTAS' MARRIAGE
690
00:35:45,246 --> 00:35:48,905
ALSO HAD POLITICAL
RAMIFICATIONS.
691
00:35:48,939 --> 00:35:52,391
AS GOVERNOR THOMAS DALE
WROTE IN 1614,
692
00:35:52,426 --> 00:35:57,155
IT USHERED IN A PERIOD KNOWN
AS "THE POCAHONTAS PEACE."
693
00:35:57,189 --> 00:35:59,260
Thomas Dale: POWHATAN'S DAUGHTER
IS SINCE MARRIED
694
00:35:59,295 --> 00:36:01,780
TO AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN
OF GOOD UNDERSTANDING,
695
00:36:01,814 --> 00:36:05,473
ANOTHER KNOT TO BIND
THIS PEACE THE STRONGER.
696
00:36:05,508 --> 00:36:10,478
♪
697
00:36:10,513 --> 00:36:14,206
Narrator: THE ROYAL HOSTAGE
HAD BECOME A BRIDE
698
00:36:14,241 --> 00:36:19,625
AND A DIPLOMAT PUTTING
THE COLONY ON STEADY GROUND.
699
00:36:19,660 --> 00:36:22,801
Townsend: WHEN JOHN ROLFE
AND POCAHONTAS MARRIED,
700
00:36:22,835 --> 00:36:25,907
THE ENGLISH AGREED
TO STOP DEMANDING TRIBUTE,
701
00:36:25,942 --> 00:36:28,393
PAYMENTS IN CORN FROM POWHATAN,
702
00:36:28,427 --> 00:36:30,360
AND TO STOP DEMANDING
703
00:36:30,395 --> 00:36:32,880
THAT THEY RETURN ALL THE WEAPONS
THEY HAD STOLEN.
704
00:36:32,914 --> 00:36:35,814
AND THE INDIANS AGREED
THAT, FOR A WHILE AT ANY RATE,
705
00:36:35,848 --> 00:36:37,781
THEY WOULD STOP
ATTACKING THE ENGLISH
706
00:36:37,816 --> 00:36:39,645
WHENEVER THEY LEFT THE FORT.
707
00:36:41,509 --> 00:36:43,580
Narrator:
DURING THIS HONEYMOON PERIOD,
708
00:36:43,615 --> 00:36:47,791
REBECCA AND JOHN ROLFE
HAVE A BABY BOY.
709
00:36:47,826 --> 00:36:50,518
THEY NAME HIM THOMAS.
710
00:36:50,553 --> 00:36:52,831
Townsend: JOHN ROLFE
WROTE IN ECSTATIC TERMS
711
00:36:52,865 --> 00:36:54,660
BOTH ABOUT THE PEACE
712
00:36:54,695 --> 00:36:57,249
AND ABOUT THE LIFE
HE WAS LIVING ON THE FARM
713
00:36:57,284 --> 00:36:59,596
WITH, WITH POCAHONTAS.
714
00:36:59,631 --> 00:37:03,635
Narrator: ON THAT FARM,
ROLFE EXPERIMENTS WITH A CROP
715
00:37:03,669 --> 00:37:06,810
THAT WILL REVERSE
THE FORTUNES OF THE COLONY
716
00:37:06,845 --> 00:37:10,814
AND DETERMINE
THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY:
717
00:37:10,849 --> 00:37:13,403
TOBACCO.
718
00:37:13,438 --> 00:37:16,786
Penney: NORTH AMERICAN TOBACCO,
NICOTIANA RUSTICA,
719
00:37:16,820 --> 00:37:19,513
UM, WAS MUCH HARSHER
720
00:37:19,547 --> 00:37:21,791
AND NOT AS PLEASANT
TO SMOKE SOCIALLY
721
00:37:21,825 --> 00:37:24,794
AS SOUTHERN TOBACCOS--
722
00:37:24,828 --> 00:37:27,370
UH, NICOTIANA TOBACUM,
FOR EXAMPLE,
723
00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:30,765
WHICH WAS THE TOBACCO THAT
THE SPANISH WERE EXPORTING.
724
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,459
THE SPANISH GUARDED THEIR ACCESS
TO THAT SPECIES OF TOBACCO
725
00:37:34,493 --> 00:37:35,977
VERY CAREFULLY.
726
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:37,634
IT WAS A CAPITAL OFFENSE
727
00:37:37,669 --> 00:37:41,811
TO SELL TOBACCO SEEDS
FROM THE SOUTH.
728
00:37:41,845 --> 00:37:43,571
Narrator: WE DON'T KNOW
HOW ROLFE ACQUIRED
729
00:37:43,606 --> 00:37:45,332
THE PRECIOUS SEEDS,
730
00:37:45,366 --> 00:37:47,368
BUT HE INTRODUCES
THE SOUTHERN TOBACCO
731
00:37:47,403 --> 00:37:48,818
TO JAMESTOWN.
732
00:37:51,441 --> 00:37:53,823
AND ACCORDING TO ORAL TRADITION,
733
00:37:53,857 --> 00:37:58,828
HE LEARNS POWHATAN METHODS FOR
CURING TOBACCO FROM POCAHONTAS--
734
00:37:58,862 --> 00:38:02,659
HANGING IT TO DRY RATHER THAN
LAYING IT ON THE GROUND.
735
00:38:02,694 --> 00:38:06,700
♪
736
00:38:06,420 --> 00:38:07,526
Townsend: IT GREW SO WELL
737
00:38:07,561 --> 00:38:09,908
AND SOLD FOR SO MUCH MONEY
BACK IN LONDON
738
00:38:09,942 --> 00:38:12,911
THAT PRETTY SOON ALMOST
ALL OF THE VIRGINIA COLONISTS
739
00:38:12,945 --> 00:38:15,160
WERE PLANTING TOBACCO,
740
00:38:15,510 --> 00:38:18,503
EVEN WHEN THEY SHOULD
HAVE BEEN PLANTING FOOD.
741
00:38:18,537 --> 00:38:21,747
Narrator: DESPITE HIGH HOPES
FOR GOLD OR A ROUTE WEST,
742
00:38:21,782 --> 00:38:26,442
JAMESTOWN HAS NEVER DELIVERED ON
THE INVESTMENT OF ITS BACKERS...
743
00:38:26,476 --> 00:38:28,754
UNTIL NOW.
744
00:38:28,789 --> 00:38:34,350
BUT ROLFE'S TOBACCO
IS A DEVIL'S BARGAIN.
745
00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:36,935
Smith: YOU KNOW,
THIS INCREDIBLY ADDICTIVE DRUG
746
00:38:36,969 --> 00:38:40,835
THAT'S KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
AROUND THE WORLD, UM,
747
00:38:40,870 --> 00:38:44,450
DEPLETES SOIL, EVERYTHING ELSE.
748
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,470
Narrator: IT WILL CREATE
A DEMAND FOR LABOR
749
00:38:46,820 --> 00:38:47,877
THAT WILL KICK OFF
THE SLAVE TRADE
750
00:38:47,911 --> 00:38:51,329
AND FORCE INDIANS
OFF THEIR LAND.
751
00:38:51,363 --> 00:38:53,503
BUT IN THE 16-TEENS,
752
00:38:53,538 --> 00:38:56,644
THE GOLDEN LEAF
WAS SIMPLY A MONEY MAKER.
753
00:38:58,784 --> 00:39:00,993
THE FIRST OF ITS KIND
IN VIRGINIA.
754
00:39:03,686 --> 00:39:08,449
ITS SUCCESS WILL ALSO PROPEL
POCAHONTAS' FAME.
755
00:39:08,484 --> 00:39:11,300
Ganteaume:
HER ASSOCIATION WITH TOBACCO,
756
00:39:11,380 --> 00:39:13,109
WHICH NEVER GOES AWAY,
757
00:39:13,143 --> 00:39:17,976
IT STARTS BEING USED
TO SELL TOBACCO.
758
00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:19,529
Narrator: IN HER LIFETIME,
759
00:39:19,564 --> 00:39:22,118
SHE'S GOING TO BE USED
TO SELL SOMETHING ELSE--
760
00:39:22,152 --> 00:39:24,396
AMERICA ITSELF.
761
00:39:25,466 --> 00:39:27,540
[BELL RINGING]
762
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:29,470
[YELLING IN DISTANCE]
763
00:39:29,505 --> 00:39:31,438
Narrator: IN 1616,
764
00:39:31,472 --> 00:39:33,578
POCAHONTAS
BOARDS AN ENGLISH SHIP
765
00:39:33,612 --> 00:39:34,855
FOR THE SECOND TIME.
766
00:39:34,889 --> 00:39:36,891
IT IS CAPTAINED
BY THE VERY SAME MAN
767
00:39:36,926 --> 00:39:41,896
WHO KIDNAPPED HER
JUST THREE YEARS BEFORE.
768
00:39:41,931 --> 00:39:43,519
BUT ON THIS VOYAGE,
769
00:39:43,553 --> 00:39:45,900
SHE IS AN HONORED GUEST
OF THE VIRGINIA COMPANY,
770
00:39:45,935 --> 00:39:48,593
SETTING SAIL FOR LONDON.
771
00:39:50,111 --> 00:39:54,530
Townsend: SHE WAS PRESSURED
TO GO WITH HER HUSBAND
772
00:39:54,564 --> 00:39:58,430
AND HER THEN VERY YOUNG
TODDLER CHILD TO ENGLAND
773
00:39:58,465 --> 00:40:00,915
BY THE VIRGINIA COMPANY
BECAUSE THEY NEEDED,
774
00:40:00,950 --> 00:40:02,986
DESPERATELY NEEDED
TO USE THE MARRIAGE,
775
00:40:03,210 --> 00:40:04,540
HER MARRIAGE TO JOHN ROLFE,
776
00:40:04,574 --> 00:40:06,921
AS PROOF THAT
THE SETTLEMENT WAS VIABLE,
777
00:40:06,956 --> 00:40:08,544
THAT THE INDIANS
WEREN'T GOING TO ATTACK,
778
00:40:08,578 --> 00:40:11,443
AND THAT IT WAS SAFE
TO SETTLE THERE.
779
00:40:11,478 --> 00:40:15,861
Narrator: SHE IS VERY POSSIBLY
THE PERFECT PERSON FOR THE JOB.
780
00:40:15,896 --> 00:40:18,692
Ganteaume: SO,
ALL THROUGHOUT THE 1500s,
781
00:40:18,726 --> 00:40:23,455
EUROPEANS WERE THINKING OF
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AS CANNIBALS,
782
00:40:23,490 --> 00:40:25,457
AS IDOLATERS,
783
00:40:25,492 --> 00:40:26,941
AS BRUTISH,
784
00:40:26,976 --> 00:40:30,566
AND MOST OF ALL AS BEING
IRREDEEMABLY NON-CHRISTIAN.
785
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,510
OK. ENTER POCAHONTAS.
786
00:40:33,850 --> 00:40:35,433
SHE IS NONE OF THESE THINGS.
787
00:40:36,951 --> 00:40:38,159
Narrator: IN LONDON,
788
00:40:38,194 --> 00:40:42,854
ALL THINGS VIRGINIA
ARE THE RAGE.
789
00:40:42,888 --> 00:40:46,133
THE 1609 BERMUDA SHIPWRECK
OF THE SEA VENTURE--
790
00:40:46,167 --> 00:40:49,136
THE SHIP JOHN ROLFE SAILED ON
TO THE NEW WORLD--
791
00:40:49,170 --> 00:40:51,656
INSPIRED SHAKESPEARE'S
"THE TEMPEST"
792
00:40:51,690 --> 00:40:56,868
AND ROMANTICIZED THE PROMISE
OF VIRGINIA.
793
00:40:56,902 --> 00:41:01,424
POCAHONTAS ARRIVES TO FIND
HERSELF VERY MUCH IN FASHION.
794
00:41:01,459 --> 00:41:04,910
Ganteaume:
SHE TOOK EUROPE BY STORM.
795
00:41:04,945 --> 00:41:08,949
SHE SHOWS UP SPEAKING ENGLISH
IN ELIZABETHAN GARB.
796
00:41:08,983 --> 00:41:11,952
SHE SHOWS UP
AS A CHRISTIAN WIFE.
797
00:41:11,986 --> 00:41:14,506
SHE SHOWS UP AS SOMEBODY
WHO WAS INVITED
798
00:41:14,541 --> 00:41:16,784
TO THE COURT OF KING JAMES.
799
00:41:16,819 --> 00:41:19,546
SO, POCAHONTAS RIGHT AWAY
800
00:41:19,580 --> 00:41:22,963
BECOMES SOMEBODY
THAT EUROPEANS CAN RELATE TO
801
00:41:22,997 --> 00:41:24,965
AND THEY CAN UNDERSTAND.
802
00:41:24,999 --> 00:41:37,495
♪
803
00:41:37,529 --> 00:41:39,130
Narrator:
TO ADVERTISE HER VISIT,
804
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,845
THE VIRGINIA COMPANY
COMMISSIONS HER PORTRAIT.
805
00:41:46,573 --> 00:41:49,748
Townsend: SIMON VAN DE PASSE,
AN ARTIST AT THE TIME,
806
00:41:49,783 --> 00:41:51,750
WAS ASKED
BY THE VIRGINIA COMPANY
807
00:41:51,785 --> 00:41:53,620
TO SKETCH HER
808
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,997
AND THEN MAKE AN ENGRAVING
FOR A BROCHURE.
809
00:41:57,310 --> 00:42:00,656
Narrator: IT'S THE ONLY PICTURE
OF HER MADE FROM LIFE.
810
00:42:00,690 --> 00:42:04,107
Townsend: IT IS NOTEWORTHY
THAT HE DID NOT, AT THAT TIME,
811
00:42:04,142 --> 00:42:08,733
ATTEMPT TO MAKE HER LOOK LIKE
YOUR AVERAGE WHITE ENGLISH GIRL
812
00:42:08,767 --> 00:42:10,769
OR GERMAN GIRL OR FRENCH GIRL.
813
00:42:10,804 --> 00:42:13,669
RIGHT. SHE IS VERY CLEARLY
IN THAT IMAGE
814
00:42:13,703 --> 00:42:16,568
A NATIVE AMERICAN PERSON.
815
00:42:16,603 --> 00:42:18,950
Narrator:
WHAT DID SHE THINK OF IT ALL?
816
00:42:18,984 --> 00:42:21,815
THE IMAGE CONTAINS CLUES.
817
00:42:21,849 --> 00:42:24,680
Townsend: THEY WANTED
TO PROVE TO THE LONDON PUBLIC
818
00:42:24,714 --> 00:42:26,613
THAT THE INDIANS LOVE US,
819
00:42:26,647 --> 00:42:28,970
THE INDIANS WANT US
TO GO TO VIRGINIA.
820
00:42:28,131 --> 00:42:29,995
SO THEY NEEDED AN IMAGE
OF A HAPPY INDIAN
821
00:42:30,300 --> 00:42:32,135
DRESSED IN ELIZABETHAN
CLOTHES, OKAY.
822
00:42:32,170 --> 00:42:35,414
BUT SOMETIMES I WONDER
IF IT WAS PARTLY HER DECISION
823
00:42:35,449 --> 00:42:39,971
TO PUT ON THAT FIERCE EXPRESSION
STARING STRAIGHT OUT.
824
00:42:42,249 --> 00:42:45,286
Narrator: AND THEN THERE IS THE
ALGONQUIAN WORD FOR VIRGINIA,
825
00:42:45,321 --> 00:42:49,140
PHONETICALLY SPELLED OUT
IN ENGLISH.
826
00:42:49,490 --> 00:42:53,530
Townsend: AROUND THE BAND
OF THE PICTURE THERE IS TEXT.
827
00:42:53,870 --> 00:42:56,401
THEN UNDERNEATH,
IT SAYS VIRGINIA,
828
00:42:56,435 --> 00:43:00,129
THAT IS CALLED TSENACOMMACAH.
829
00:43:00,163 --> 00:43:02,303
SO WHERE COULD
SIMON VAN DE PASSE, THE ARTIST,
830
00:43:02,338 --> 00:43:03,615
HAVE GOTTEN HIS INFORMATION?
831
00:43:03,650 --> 00:43:06,998
CLEARLY FROM HER.
832
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,173
Narrator: SHE MAY WELL HAVE BEEN
CAREFULLY CONTROLLING HER IMAGE,
833
00:43:10,208 --> 00:43:13,280
EVEN AS SHE PROMOTED
COLONIZATION.
834
00:43:13,314 --> 00:43:15,420
Gray: WAS POCAHONTAS A VICTIM?
835
00:43:15,454 --> 00:43:17,111
A PAWN?
836
00:43:17,146 --> 00:43:18,906
THERE'S EVEN BEEN TALK,
YOU KNOW,
837
00:43:18,941 --> 00:43:21,253
SOME PEOPLE EVEN EQUATE HER
WITH BEING A TRAITOR
838
00:43:21,288 --> 00:43:23,324
TO HER OWN PEOPLE.
839
00:43:23,359 --> 00:43:26,465
Narrator: WAS SHE SELLING
THE POWHATAN OUT?
840
00:43:26,500 --> 00:43:29,261
OR JUST PLAYING BOTH SIDES?
841
00:43:29,296 --> 00:43:31,609
Smith:
MAYBE SHE WAS A DOUBLE AGENT.
842
00:43:31,643 --> 00:43:33,921
SHE'S THERE TO GATHER
INTELLIGENCE,
843
00:43:33,956 --> 00:43:38,270
TO SEE THIS THING THAT
HAD TO BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED.
844
00:43:38,305 --> 00:43:39,306
Narrator:
WE KNOW SHE MADE THE TRIP
845
00:43:39,340 --> 00:43:42,171
WITH HER FATHER'S BLESSING.
846
00:43:42,205 --> 00:43:45,623
Townsend: IN FACT, HE SENT
HIGH-RANKING PEOPLE WITH HER
847
00:43:45,657 --> 00:43:48,730
IN ORDER THAT THEY SHOULD
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ENGLISH
848
00:43:48,108 --> 00:43:50,766
AND BRING BACK THAT INFORMATION.
849
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:52,430
Atkins: I HAVE NO DOUBT
850
00:43:52,770 --> 00:43:54,390
THAT POWHATAN
WAS ALSO BEING STRATEGIC
851
00:43:54,424 --> 00:43:56,219
ABOUT HER GOING TO THIS PLACE
852
00:43:56,254 --> 00:44:00,430
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WHO THESE,
YOU KNOW, INTERLOPERS WERE,
853
00:44:00,465 --> 00:44:03,537
THESE INVADERS WERE.
854
00:44:03,571 --> 00:44:05,643
Narrator:
A MEETING WITH AN OLD FRIEND
855
00:44:05,677 --> 00:44:07,921
RETURNED FROM THE DEAD
856
00:44:07,955 --> 00:44:09,543
REVEALS SOMETHING
OF HER ALLEGIANCES.
857
00:44:09,577 --> 00:44:11,270
John Smith: POCAHONTAS.
858
00:44:11,620 --> 00:44:13,340
Townsend: JOHN SMITH LOVED FAME,
859
00:44:13,374 --> 00:44:16,446
AND HE CHASED IT
IN ANY WAY THAT HE COULD.
860
00:44:16,481 --> 00:44:20,200
AND HE CERTAINLY WORKED HARD
WHEN POCAHONTAS CAME TO LONDON
861
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:25,145
TO ADVERTISE HIS OWN
PRIOR CONNECTION WITH HER.
862
00:44:25,179 --> 00:44:28,217
Narrator: IF SMITH ANTICIPATED
A HEARTFELT REUNION,
863
00:44:28,251 --> 00:44:30,495
HE WAS DISAPPOINTED.
864
00:44:30,529 --> 00:44:35,170
TO POCAHONTAS,
HE WAS THE SELL-OUT.
865
00:44:35,510 --> 00:44:36,639
Townsend: SHE FELT LIED TO
866
00:44:36,674 --> 00:44:39,193
IN TERMS OF HAVING PROMISED
NOT TO TAKE THEIR LAND,
867
00:44:39,228 --> 00:44:41,368
TO TREAT THEM RESPECTFULLY,
ET CETERA.
868
00:44:41,402 --> 00:44:43,542
AND SHE SAID THAT
VERY VOCIFEROUSLY
869
00:44:43,577 --> 00:44:45,234
IN FRONT OF A NUMBER OF PEOPLE.
870
00:44:48,990 --> 00:44:51,136
Narrator: REJECTING SMITH
AS A TRAITOR TO HER PEOPLE
871
00:44:51,171 --> 00:44:54,381
SUGGESTS THAT SHE WAS
STILL LOYAL TO THE POWHATAN,
872
00:44:54,415 --> 00:44:56,832
DESPITE HER POSITION
AMONG THE ENGLISH.
873
00:44:58,626 --> 00:45:01,215
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
TO THE POWHATAN
874
00:45:01,250 --> 00:45:03,217
SEEMS OBVIOUS TODAY,
875
00:45:03,252 --> 00:45:06,130
BUT THAT WAS NOT SO
IN THE MOMENT.
876
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,395
Smith: WE'RE BLINDED
BECAUSE WE KNOW THE ENDING.
877
00:45:08,429 --> 00:45:10,520
SO EVERYTHING ABOUT POCAHONTAS
878
00:45:10,860 --> 00:45:11,985
IS KNOWING THAT
THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENT
879
00:45:12,190 --> 00:45:15,229
WAS DISASTROUS
FOR INDIAN PEOPLE.
880
00:45:15,264 --> 00:45:18,336
AND WE'RE COLLAPSING
A CENTURY OF HISTORY
881
00:45:18,370 --> 00:45:22,133
INTO, YOU KNOW, THESE MOMENTS.
882
00:45:22,167 --> 00:45:24,342
Narrator: AFTER ALL, IN 1616,
883
00:45:24,376 --> 00:45:26,965
JAMESTOWN
WAS A STRUGGLING COLONY,
884
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,278
ALWAYS ON THE VERGE
OF STARVATION.
885
00:45:29,312 --> 00:45:31,314
Smith: YOU WOULD
HAVE BEEN THE TOWN FOOL
886
00:45:31,349 --> 00:45:33,489
TO COME IN AND SAY, OH,
THIS IS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN,
887
00:45:33,523 --> 00:45:35,249
AND IT'S GOING TO BE TERRIBLE,
888
00:45:35,284 --> 00:45:37,355
AND WE SHOULD KILL THEM ALL NOW
WHILE THEY'RE SLEEPING.
889
00:45:40,496 --> 00:45:43,850
Narrator: THE WORK
OF PROMOTING THE COLONY DONE,
890
00:45:43,119 --> 00:45:44,914
IN MARCH OF 1617,
891
00:45:44,949 --> 00:45:47,261
THE ROLFE FAMILY
CASTS OFF FROM LONDON
892
00:45:47,296 --> 00:45:50,299
AND SAILS DOWN THE THAMES
EN ROUTE TO VIRGINIA.
893
00:45:55,269 --> 00:45:58,514
BUT THEY NEVER EVEN
REACH THE OCEAN.
894
00:45:58,548 --> 00:46:02,690
SEVERAL PASSENGERS,
INCLUDING POCAHONTAS,
895
00:46:02,104 --> 00:46:05,383
ARE TOO ILL TO GO ON.
896
00:46:05,417 --> 00:46:08,351
Penney: WE DON'T KNOW, UM,
WHAT SHE WAS AFFLICTED WITH.
897
00:46:08,386 --> 00:46:11,147
SOME EVEN ARE AFRAID THAT
SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN POISONED,
898
00:46:11,182 --> 00:46:12,355
THAT THEY DIDN'T
WANT HER TO GO BACK.
899
00:46:12,390 --> 00:46:14,357
WE DON'T KNOW.
900
00:46:18,510 --> 00:46:20,467
Narrator: AT JUST 22 YEARS OLD
901
00:46:20,501 --> 00:46:23,539
AND AN OCEAN AWAY
FROM HER HOME,
902
00:46:23,573 --> 00:46:25,644
POCAHONTAS DIES.
903
00:46:31,340 --> 00:46:33,652
[BABY CRIES]
904
00:46:33,687 --> 00:46:36,000
JOHN ROLFE LEAVES THEIR SON
905
00:46:36,340 --> 00:46:37,725
TO BE RAISED BY HIS BROTHER
IN ENGLAND.
906
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:42,316
[CRYING]
907
00:46:42,351 --> 00:46:44,663
THE TWO WILL NEVER MEET AGAIN.
908
00:46:49,634 --> 00:46:54,984
BUT POCAHONTAS' IMPACT
DOES NOT END WITH HER DEATH.
909
00:46:55,190 --> 00:46:58,263
HER SON, THOMAS ROLFE,
GROWS UP IN BRITAIN,
910
00:46:58,298 --> 00:47:02,578
BUT RETURNS TO AMERICA
AS AN ADULT IN 1635.
911
00:47:02,612 --> 00:47:05,650
Penney: HE HAS THE ESTATES
THAT JOHN ROLFE CREATED,
912
00:47:05,684 --> 00:47:07,583
AND HE IS VERY WEALTHY
AS A RESULT,
913
00:47:07,617 --> 00:47:12,622
AS A TOBACCO PLANTATION
OWNER AND MANAGER.
914
00:47:12,657 --> 00:47:14,693
Narrator: HIS BECOMES
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
915
00:47:14,728 --> 00:47:18,732
FIRST FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA.
916
00:47:18,766 --> 00:47:23,737
HIS MOTHER'S BLOODLINE QUITE
LITERALLY FOUNDS AMERICA.
917
00:47:23,771 --> 00:47:26,119
Penney: NOT ONLY
THOMAS JEFFERSON'S SISTER
918
00:47:26,153 --> 00:47:28,431
MARRIED A DESCENDANT
OF POCAHONTAS,
919
00:47:28,466 --> 00:47:30,709
BUT HIS DAUGHTER MARRIED
A DESCENDANT OF POCAHONTAS
920
00:47:30,744 --> 00:47:33,264
FROM A DIFFERENT BRANCH
OF THE FAMILY AS WELL.
921
00:47:33,298 --> 00:47:35,266
Narrator: TODAY THERE ARE
MORE THAN 30,000
922
00:47:35,300 --> 00:47:37,578
DOCUMENTED DESCENDANTS
OF POCAHONTAS
923
00:47:37,613 --> 00:47:40,305
THROUGH THOMAS ROLFE.
924
00:47:40,340 --> 00:47:43,619
Townsend: IT SEEMS TO BE
APPEALING TO MANY AMERICANS
925
00:47:43,653 --> 00:47:47,243
TO SAY THAT THEY ARE DESCENDED
FROM AN INDIAN PRINCESS.
926
00:47:50,557 --> 00:47:52,179
Narrator:
DESCENDANTS OF POCAHONTAS
927
00:47:52,214 --> 00:47:54,285
INCLUDE ROBERT E. LEE
928
00:47:54,319 --> 00:47:58,530
AND FIRST LADY
EDITH BOLLING GALT WILSON.
929
00:47:58,565 --> 00:48:01,326
IT'S LINEAGE
THAT CONFERS STATUS,
930
00:48:01,361 --> 00:48:05,330
LIKE BEING RELATED
TO PASSENGERS ON THE MAYFLOWER.
931
00:48:05,365 --> 00:48:08,402
BUT IS IT TRULY MEANINGFUL?
932
00:48:08,437 --> 00:48:11,129
Townsend: MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO
CLAIM TO BE DESCENDANTS OF HER
933
00:48:11,164 --> 00:48:12,682
CAN'T EVEN SAY
WHEN THEY'RE ASKED
934
00:48:12,717 --> 00:48:16,100
WHAT TRIBE OR TRIBES
SHE WAS AFFILIATED WITH,
935
00:48:16,134 --> 00:48:19,586
KNOW ALMOST NOTHING
ABOUT HER LIFE.
936
00:48:19,620 --> 00:48:21,726
Narrator:
IT'S A COMPLICATED LEGACY
937
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:25,212
THAT WOULD TAKE
A SURPRISING TURN.
938
00:48:25,247 --> 00:48:27,180
Smith: IN THE 1920s,
939
00:48:27,214 --> 00:48:32,120
THIS IS WHEN THESE IDEOLOGICAL
CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST.
940
00:48:32,470 --> 00:48:34,140
Narrator: IN 1924,
941
00:48:34,490 --> 00:48:36,672
VIRGINIA'S REGISTRAR
OF VITAL STATISTICS,
942
00:48:36,706 --> 00:48:40,227
AN AVOWED WHITE SUPREMACIST,
WALTER PLECKER,
943
00:48:40,262 --> 00:48:44,300
LEADS AN EFFORT TO
"PURIFY" THE WHITE RACE.
944
00:48:44,335 --> 00:48:47,994
HE CLASSIFIES ANYONE WITH
ONE DROP OF NON-WHITE BLOOD
945
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:49,547
AS "COLORED,"
946
00:48:49,581 --> 00:48:52,584
WHICH INCLUDES
POCAHONTAS' DESCENDANTS.
947
00:48:52,619 --> 00:48:54,340
Smith: UH-OH.
948
00:48:54,690 --> 00:48:57,210
I BRAG ABOUT
MY POCAHONTAS ANCESTRY.
949
00:48:57,244 --> 00:48:59,695
SO HOW DOES THAT GET FIXED?
950
00:48:59,729 --> 00:49:01,593
Narrator: IT'S FIXED
951
00:49:01,628 --> 00:49:05,356
BY WHAT COMES TO BE KNOWN
AS THE POCAHONTAS EXCEPTION.
952
00:49:05,390 --> 00:49:10,850
Atkins: IT BASICALLY PROTECTS
THESE WHITE INDIVIDUALS
953
00:49:10,119 --> 00:49:13,191
WHO CLAIM DESCENDANCY
FROM POCAHONTAS
954
00:49:13,226 --> 00:49:16,677
FROM BEING MOVED
INTO THE COLORED CATEGORY.
955
00:49:16,712 --> 00:49:18,162
Narrator: AT THE SAME TIME,
956
00:49:18,196 --> 00:49:21,475
THE COLORED CATEGORY
LUMPS EVERYONE TOGETHER,
957
00:49:21,510 --> 00:49:27,330
AND ON PAPER, NATIVE AMERICANS
LOSE THEIR UNIQUE HERITAGE.
958
00:49:29,242 --> 00:49:31,209
LESS THAN A HUNDRED YEARS LATER,
959
00:49:31,244 --> 00:49:35,282
THE PAMUNKEY, THE SURVIVING
MEMBERS OF POCAHONTAS' TRIBE,
960
00:49:35,317 --> 00:49:40,322
TAKE ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
TO GET THAT RECOGNITION BACK.
961
00:49:40,356 --> 00:49:44,498
AT LAST, THE POCAHONTAS
EXCEPTION DOES SOME GOOD.
962
00:49:44,533 --> 00:49:48,880
Gray: PLECKER, ALL HIS EFFORTS
TO FIGHT AGAINST US,
963
00:49:48,123 --> 00:49:50,470
BASICALLY HELPED
OUR RECOGNITION
964
00:49:50,504 --> 00:49:52,748
BECAUSE IF HE WAS FIGHTING
SO HARD AGAINST US,
965
00:49:52,782 --> 00:49:55,268
THEN WE MUST HAVE EXISTED.
966
00:49:55,302 --> 00:49:59,410
IF, UH, IF WE DIDN'T EXIST,
WHY WAS HE FIGHTING?
967
00:49:59,444 --> 00:50:01,584
WE MAINTAINED OUR IDENTITY.
968
00:50:01,619 --> 00:50:03,414
IT WAS TOUGH,
969
00:50:03,448 --> 00:50:08,522
BUT WE CAME OUT OF IT
JUST KNOWING WHO WE WERE.
970
00:50:08,557 --> 00:50:12,423
Narrator:
POCAHONTAS' FAME IS ETERNAL.
971
00:50:12,457 --> 00:50:14,563
WE HAVE BEEN
TELLING OURSELVES HER STORY
972
00:50:14,597 --> 00:50:16,737
FOR 400 YEARS.
973
00:50:16,772 --> 00:50:21,870
Actress: POCAHONTAS ASKS HIM
TO GIVE HER THIS MAN'S LIFE.
974
00:50:21,121 --> 00:50:22,778
Smith: IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT
FOR THE COUNTRY
975
00:50:22,812 --> 00:50:27,990
TO SEE INDIANS IN SOME WAY
PARTNERS TO THE UNITED STATES.
976
00:50:28,250 --> 00:50:30,751
POCAHONTAS WAS THERE,
SHE WAS PART OF THINGS,
977
00:50:30,786 --> 00:50:32,753
AND WE LOVE POCAHONTAS.
978
00:50:32,788 --> 00:50:34,721
PEOPLE ARE SAYING
IT STILL MATTERS
979
00:50:34,755 --> 00:50:37,172
AND INDIANS ARE FUNDAMENTALLY
PART OF THE COUNTRY.
980
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:43,212
Narrator: JOHN SMITH AND DISNEY
MAY HAVE MADE HER FAMOUS...
981
00:50:47,113 --> 00:50:49,149
BUT BEYOND THE MYTH,
982
00:50:49,184 --> 00:50:54,160
HERS IS A STORY AT THE CORE
OF THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA.
983
00:50:54,510 --> 00:50:58,227
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