Smile From The Lower East Side

2464 days ago

the Cree actor and filmmaker Georgina Lightning, told me she saw virtually no indigenous role models in movies or on TV during her childhood, with Natives so often shown in “leather and feathers.”

The Enduring Legacy of the Pocahontas Myth

theatlantic.com

Four hundred years after her death, misperceptions of the Native American icon continue to shape the cultural image of indigenous peoples—though that’s starting to change. On March 21, 1617, a 21-year-old woman from Virginia’s Pamunkey tribe died at Gravesend, England.