AMST 20100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: American Indian Boarding Schools, Girl Power, Snapple
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Town hall: there are a lot of people and everyone has their own idea, american dream pg. Pocahontas is an important origin myth that has been present in. American popular culture since the 17th century: a majority of the historical details are wrong, the realities are misrepresented. Cultural imperialism: the beliefs and actions that arise when one group dominates another on cultural terms: loewen ch. 4 pg. Native american boarding schools: kill the indian, save the man . Virginia company could accomplish: while she was kidnapped , she changes her name to rebecca, she converts to christianity, she marries john rolfe, she dies in 1617 at the age of 23, she is buried in england. Other cultures in the americas have interracial origin stories that resemble pocahontas: ex. What does the disney pocahontas movie get wrong: heroification of john smith, pocahontas is a free spirit, product of the 1990s girl power movement, agency: the degree control/choice a historical actor has.
