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Now, take a minute to write down how these two images are both similar and different.

Now, take a minute to write down how these two images are both similar and different. Who are the people in these pictures?. Pocahontas. Original engraving from an artist who met her on a tour of England (primary)

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Now, take a minute to write down how these two images are both similar and different.

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  1. Now, take a minute to write down how these two images are both similar and different.

  2. Who are the people in these pictures?

  3. Pocahontas • Original engraving from an artist who met her on a tour of England (primary) • Second was a painting based on the engraving (secondary)--most common image in textbooks • With your students, focus on how her image changed • The story gets stranger...

  4. Suddenly she looks like a movie actress -- even whiter, shorter hat, brighter image...but it gets worse. APVA, Preservation Virginia website

  5. Wow, what happened to Pocahontas? Now she’s Barbie Doll!

  6. Historians now call this the “Disney Effect” • Millions of school children think that this is what Pocahontas looked like and that the movie is simply a stylized version of the true story • By the way, who was her love interest in the film?

  7. Hey now, even he cleaned up version of John Smith did not look like this guy! Pocohontas was only 10 years old when she met John Smith -- and her real husband was a farmer named John Rolfe!

  8. Teach your students to examine original artifacts and documents • Teach your students that history is an interpretation and not unquestioned truths • Teach them to question how history is portrayed in media

  9. History versus Heritage: History is the disciplined inquiry of the past. Heritage is the celebration of the past -- “to spark faith, enhance identify, and create a sense of pleasure and joy in who we are.” (Lowenthal, 1998) • “Schools must recognize the impact of cultural experiences and out of classroom influences on the learning of history.” (Van Sledright, 2002)

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