@itsjillianrowe: Pocahontas wasn’t a love story. She was a kidnapped Indigenous girl whose life was rewritten by the people who took her from her home. She was a child when she met John Smith. She was held hostage by English colonists, and according to Mattaponi oral history, endured sexual violence before agreeing to a marriage she believed could help protect her people. The English turned her into proof that colonization was working. We turned her into a Disney princess. But her name was Matoaka. She had a family, a homeland, and a life that deserved so much more than what happened to her. And for more than 400 years, we’ve largely been telling the colonizers’ version of her story. It’s time for another F*ck A** History lesson. #FuckAssHistory #Pocahontas #IndigenousHistory #ColonialHistory #HistoryTok