{"id":141212,"date":"2023-09-03T04:36:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141212"},"modified":"2023-09-03T04:36:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:36:57","slug":"mmiw-pocahontas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/mmiw-pocahontas\/","title":{"rendered":"MMIW: Pocahontas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MMIW: Pocahontas<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another sad tale<\/p>\n

of an Indigenous girl<\/p>\n

stolen from her land<\/p>\n

and forced into marriage.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Many of you know of her<\/p>\n

from Disney\u2019s movie:<\/p>\n

Pocahontas.<\/p>\n

It displayed her as a proper age<\/p>\n

and was in love with John Smith.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I too was taken away by this fantasy<\/p>\n

that was fed to us.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I relearned her story in High School,<\/p>\n

where in History Class another Native girl<\/p>\n

did a report on Pocahontas.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But the school project was not the entire truth.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In contrary to Disney,<\/p>\n

Pocahontas was only 11.<\/p>\n

A young girl, barely a young woman.<\/p>\n

She lived in fear of the settlers and soldiers,<\/p>\n

because rape was a popular sport.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When John saw the young girl<\/p>\n

with long black hair<\/p>\n

running around with her friends.<\/p>\n

He wanted her.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So, he took her at the age of 15.<\/p>\n

She was forced into marriage,<\/p>\n

was raped by men.<\/p>\n

All the while she saw her own husband murdered.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A broken soul, beaten and scorned,<\/p>\n

was forced into another marriage<\/p>\n

and was given an English name, Rebecca.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Like Sacagawea, she also died in her 20\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Only to have her story romanticized and condensed.<\/p>\n

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