Pocahontas Thesis

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Pocahontas was a “ shadow of the forest” made into something larger by the ethnocentric imaginations of European culture. They created this woman to portray an idealistic native, a peacemaker between the two civilizations of European settlers and Indians, and a light for the future of Caucasian influence in the new world. There are stories that are truthful and reflect the welcoming of Natives, however there was not just one woman who created peace between the Indian civilization and Europeans. The English created Pocahontas to promote settlement in the New World. Every Native who aided the English settlers were nothing more than shadows of the forest, but together they all impacted the future of the New World. Without the creation of Pocahontas,

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