#matoaka

[diioonysus]

history + last words

#history #mary wollstonecraft #oscar wilde #giles corey #agrippina the younger #pliny the elder #matoaka #pocahontas in other names but i just went with her actual name #jack daniel #historyedit #words #art

[ricemilkie]

Another photoshop of Uttamatomakkin I did after seeing many people enjoyed the first one I did! Thank you everyone for sharing such kind words!

Again, I started doing these to give Uttamatomakkin some dignity back. I am tired of native american men being designed/drawed purposely ugly and insulting. Uttamatomakkin was a real man and he shouldn’t have been made into a joke just because of his appearance/race. So anyways here are my edits.

I hope everyone likes it!

#Was he Mattaponi or Pamunkey? #I believe the Pamunkey claim him? #Uttamatomakkin #Tomocomo #Pocahontas #Matoaka #Photoshop #Edit #pocahontas fix it #Character redesign #racist tw #historical post?? #tidewater region virginia #native virginia native #Powhatan confederacy #Powhatan #Pamunkey tribe #Mattaponi #disney pocahontas #amonute

[neechees]

I hate the rampant fetishization of Pocahontas so much. Do people not understand that she was a real Native person? The Disney movie was such a disgustingly racist mistake.

I think theres a large variants of how much people know about her. A lot of people know she was a real person, but believe the myth that she and John Smith had a "romance" (which was perpetuated long before Disney, Disney just added gasoline to the flames). Id say a LOT of people probably know the White (& whitewashed) version of her story. A lot of people know she was a real historical figure & that she was an important figure, but not much else. Some people don't know she was real at all & think she was just a cartoon character. Some people know her real history & everything but don't care & continue to fetishize her bc of racism & racial fetishization of Native women.

The people who know the history of what ACTUALLY happened via Powhatan oral history is in the minority, & it's either unknown or overlooked as "inaccurate" because it is oral history (even though we know John Smith was even known for being a liar & used the story of an "exotic" princess in a foreign country falling in love with him & saving him from her father at least THREE other times before Matoaka.) I know there's also misinformation variants going around of the oral history version of tiktok, in which people are saying she married John Smith at age 12, which of course is false: she MET John Smith at age 10-12, and she married John ROLFE after age 17.

I know the Disney company even consulted some Powhatan oral history but they just chose not to use most of it in favor of the myths surrounding her. You can tell because they use the plotlines of her recieving a necklace, associating her with water (which is found in her name), having her mother be dead, and adding Kocoum. It really was a mistake

#the-gentile-folklorist #matoaka

[women-throughout-history]

Matoaka

Matoaka, known more widely as Pocahontas, was born into the Powhatan people around 1596. Her early years were spent in the midst of a bustling household led by her father, Chief Powhatan, in the Tsenacommacah region of Virginia. Though her given name was Amonute, she was affectionately known as Matoaka within her community. As a child, she likely engaged in the daily tasks typical of her culture, contributing to farming, gathering, and other domestic chores alongside her kin.

Her encounter with the English came in 1607 when Captain John Smith arrived at her father's capital. Despite legends suggesting her role in Smith's rescue, her involvement in saving him is debated among historians.

As tensions between the English settlers and the Powhatan people escalated, Matoaka's life took a tumultuous turn. She married a man named Kocoum, likely as a strategic move by her father to ensure her safety. However, her capture by English colonists in 1613 disrupted these plans, leading to her baptism, marriage to John Rolfe, and eventual journey to England.

In England, Matoaka was thrust into the spotlight, presented as a symbol of the "civilised savage" to garner support for the struggling Jamestown colony. Despite the attention, her time in England was marked by challenges, including strained relationships and deteriorating health.

Tragically, Matoaka's life was cut short at the age of around twenty-one, just as she prepared to return to Virginia. Her legacy, overshadowed by romanticised narratives, reveals a complex intersection of cultures and the harsh realities of early colonial America. She was not merely a figure of romance, but a young woman who suffered due to a rapidly changing world. 

#matoaka #women in history #history #virgina #pocahontas

[mysteriouscam]

#IFTTT #Flickr #bw #notfilm #digital #westvirginia #matoaka #abandoned

[azural83]

I always thought that it was odd how disney still promotes pocahontas

Disney has a history of censoring or straight up ignoring their old problematic media but pocahontas? A true story about a girl who went through horrifying events that they romanticised and profit of it is still considered one of their memorable movies, she's still one of the official disney princesses despite the fact that how disrespectful the movie was towards matoaka

#ik that the whole john smith thing is not from disney but yeah #people often want to separate history and fiction but that movie was still based of real life #and it was all wrong #disney critical #disney racism #disney criticism #disney salt #anti disney #matoaka #pocahontas #disney #disney movies #native american #native american women #powhatan

[sophiemariepl]

The next time you believe that Russia & the USSR was and is anticolonial, think of whether Russia did the decolonization within its borders first.

Spoiler alert: Russia never revised its colonial history regarding it's conquests in Siberia, the so-called Russian North (Karelia and other Ugro-Finnic lands), the Caucasus mountains and Central Asia. Instead, they still worship the very people who committed those crimes as national heroes.

A perfect example of such a Russian national “hero” is Semyon Dezhnev, a 17th-century Russian (Moscovian) cossack. In Russian schools they teach that he was a great traveler and explorer, that he discovered new lands in Siberia for the tsar, that he was the first European to swim through the Bering Strait, and that he befriended the native Siberian nations. During the Soviet era, he was so revered that several icebreaker ships were named after him.

What they don't mention, however, is the fact that in relation to native Siberians, particularly Sakhans (Yakuts), he was a sort of a character that we could compare to the Spanish conquistadors in South and Central Americas or to English settlers in North America. I believe that the best character in the Western historiography that I can compare him to is John Smith. Yeah, the one who abducted a 12-year-old Powhatan girl named Matoaka, but you may know her in her romanticized, sexu@lized version as Pocahontas.

In other words, I mean that Semyon Dezhnev was a colonizer, and most likely a murderer and a r@pist.

Because yeah, the story of Semyon Dezhnev and his Sakhan (Yakutian) wife, Abakayade, is sort of like the Russian version of the story of Pocahontas and John Smith. It is heavily romanticized and almost always centres the perspective of the colonists and marginalizes native voices.

But you know what is the difference between the story of Pocahontas & John Smith and the story of Semyon Dezhnev & Abakayade?

That the native people of the Americas managed to fight back and reclaim their own narrative. That the white settlers were forced to stop spreading this false narrative which only served to legitimize colonialism and genocide.

Meanwhile, in Russia, the story of Dezhnev & Abakayade was cemented by the Soviet propaganda as the perfect example of the fraternity of peoples. Yes, the same concept of the fraternity of peoples that the Soviets popularized among the POC in the West as an example of a decolonized, equal society.

And the lie has been so strong, that in 2005 Semyon Dezhnev was commemorated in a monument in Yakutsk, the capital city of the republic of Yakutia (Sakha) - the capital city of the very lands that he raided and exploited. And to make things worse, he is depicted as a loving husband to Abakayade, the woman whom he abducted, forcefully baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church, married in this very religion that was foreign to her, then r@ped and impregnated so that she had his child.

How disgusting you have to be to lie to the world about being “anti-colonial” and then commemorate straight-up colonizers?

And yeah, before you accuse me of defending the US - the fact that I criticize Russian imperialism, Russian colonialism and the concept of Russia as a whole does not mean that I am fond of the US. Heck, I am not. But the problem is that criticizing the US has been a thing for decades, while the victims of Russian colonialism and imperialism has been silenced this entire time because too many people out there believed in the myth called fraternity of peoples - a myth invented by Russkiye (white Slavic) Russians for Russkiye Russians, and to make Russiye Russians look good in the eyes of the world; a myth, in which the native population is just an addition to the “glory” of the Russkiye.

My point is not that the US is better, my point is that the US and Russia, somewhat like the Western and Eastern Rome, are two sides of the same coin and none of them deserves praise just because it's against the other. They equally deserve condemnation.

Have a picture of a monument of a colonizer with his victim 🙃

#russian imperialism #russian colonialism #russian history #siberia #yakutia #sakha #settler colonialism #anti colonialism #russian cossacks #Semyon dezhnev #Abakayade #soviet colonialism #soviet union #vladimir lenin #john smith #pocahontas #matoaka #powhatan #yakutsk #russian propaganda #russian far east #decolonization #decolonize russia #freedom to yakutia #freedom to sakha #fraternity of peoples #soviet propaganda #russian colonization of Siberia #indigenous rights #indigenous russia

[diioonysus]

happy women’s history month but also to the women who deserved better (to name a few)

#women's history month #obviously couldn't include everyone but there's so many women that deserved better #every native women mistreated #every black women or asian women mistreated #and etc #henrietta lacks #sacajawea #matoaka #lilioukalani #joan of arc #hatshepsut #marsha p johnson #rosalind franklin #tituba #boudica #history #women in history

[high-quality-tiktoks]

This one makes me sad for various reasons...

#video #tiktok #tiktoks #story time #disney #disney princess #disney princesses #pocahontas #matoaka #helenjp1313

[ricemilkie]

Tomocomo, before and after

Tomocomo was a real person and i didn’t like how his features were drawn and how disproportionate it was. The original looked more like a racist Caricature and I didn’t like it, so I decided to give him more dignity and try my best as an amateur photoshopper to make him look more proportionate.

if any of you can photoshop him more, that would be great!

#Pocahontas #Tomocomo #photoshop #disney #matoaka #new world #racist tw #native tumblr #ndn tumblr

[neechees]

Unrelated but every time Disney tries to do a revamped or new variant version of Pocahontas's dress it comes out hideous. Every single time. Either they put her in that horrid colonized golden dress, or they turn on the stereotyped generic Native outfit to 11 & make it as ugly as possible

#always with the red triangle designs #matoaka #dp

[now-watching]

Recommendations 61-65:

61. THE NEW WORLD (2005), dir. Terrence Malick

“ONCE DISCOVERED, IT WAS CHANGED FOREVER.

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.”

Availability: Available for rental on GooglePlay, AppleTV, VUDU, Amazon, and YouTube.

62. MUDBOUND (2017), dir. Dee Rees

“In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.”

Availability: Available on Netflix.

63. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940), dir. John Ford

“THE JOADS STEP RIGHT OUT OF THE PAGES OF THE NOVEL THAT HAS SHOCKED MILLIONS! 

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life… Hopefully.”

Availability: Available for rental on GooglePlay, AppleTV, VUDU, Amazon, and YouTube.

64. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946), dir. William Wyler

“THREE WONDERFUL LOVES IN THE BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR!

It’s the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare. Captain Fred Derry is returning to a loveless marriage; Sergeant Al Stephenson is a stranger to a family that’s grown up without him; and young sailor Homer Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands. Can these three men find the courage to rebuild their world? Or are the best years of their lives a thing of the past.”

 Availability: Free on PlutoTV and available for rental on AppleTV and Amazon.

65. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944), dir. Vincente Minnelli

“M·G·M’S GLORIOUS LOVE STORY WITH MUSIC!

In the year before the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.”

Availability: Available on The Criterion Channel and HBOMax with subscriptions and available for rental via YouTube, GooglePlay, AppleTV, VUDU, and Amazon. 

[The American Experience Film Recs]

#The New World #Mudbound #The Grapes of Wrath #The Best Years of Our Lives #Meet Me in St. Louis #Film #Terrence Malick #Colin Farrell #Q'orianka Kilcher #Christopher Plummer #Christian Bale #Wes Studi #David Thewlis #Colonialism #John Smith #Pocahontas #Amonute #Matoaka #Dee Rees #WWII #Carey Mulligan #Jason Mitchell #Mary J. Blige #John Ford #The Great Depression #John Steinbeck #Henry Fonda #Jane Darwell #John Carradine #Dorris Bowdon

[mysteriouscam]

#IFTTT #Flickr #bw #papernegative #westvirginia #abandoned #matoaka

[venusdeservedbetter]

The fact that there are several books and comics referring to Matoaka (Pocahontas) as an American/”Indian” princess offends me personally.

Especially since a fair amount of them use the John Smith recount of those events, which are horribly inaccurate.

#part is that its gross and inaccurate #other part is that im actually related to her #i even saw a comic released very recently that seems to glamorize the story #like the disney movie i hate #matoaka #Pocahontas #native appropriation #native representation

[tyrannoninja]

We should all know by now that Matoaka, the Powhatan “princess” who became immortalized in history as Pocahontas and even inspired a Disney animated film, would have been around twelve years old when she first met the British settlers of Jamestown in 1607 AD. But what if the Disney film had portrayed her that way instead of aging her up into a twenty-something woman?

(Twelve-year-old anatomical proportions are not easy to get right, believe me.)

#pocahontas #powhatan #matoaka #indigenous #native american #disney princess #disney #fanart #digital art #art