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Beyond Disney: A 1616 portrait of Pocahontas shows how English colonizers saw Indigenous Americans

By Peter C. Mancall, Distinguished Professor and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.The Conversation


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