Disney loves making grim fairytales kid-friendly, but Pocahontas was a real woman, and the studio changed her harrowing story drastically.
Disney's Pocahontas is chock-full of memorable music and beautifully animated sequences, but the real story of the Indigenous woman is vastly different from what the film depicts. The animated Disney classics of the early '90s featured a string of fairytales ripped from their gruesome origins and sanded down of their less-savory aspects to become shiny iconic recreations of family-friendly animated adventures with a catchy soundtrack to boot.
Smith recounts his meeting with Pocahontas in a letter eight years later, though this time, he describes the Indigenous woman as 12 or 13 at the time. Regardless, Disney decided to age Pocahontas up drastically for their film. While an explanation for this choice hasn't been freely given, it's obvious that the studio wanted a typical Prince Charming for their Disney princess and couldn't have the older John Smith wooing a historically accurate Pocahontas.
Pocahontas Was Thought To Have Married Kocoum Before Pocahontas married John Rolfe in 1914, it's thought she married Kocoum first. Kocoum does, in fact, feature in Pocahontas. In the Disney movie, Pocahontas outright dreads being married to Powhatan warrior Kocoum as she feels that he's much too stern and serious to handle her independent nature. His character receives ill treatment throughout the film.
Pocahontas' Name Was Changed To Rebecca Before She Married John Rolfe In Disney's continued attempt to romanticize the story of a tragic figure who was one of many victims of colonizers, another detail that was omitted was Pocahontas' "rebranding" into an English woman. The animated movie sees Pocahontas retain her cultural roots while shacking up with the white settler John Smith.
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