This is how we get the Disney Pocahontas versus the reality when the governor was skinned alive by tribeswomen when he tried pleading for aid.

Its funny because the Left hates it for correctly portraying that the Injuns weren't just happy noble victims but actively engaging in the same human propensity for paranoia, violence and evil back towards the Whites, and the Right hates it for whitewashing just how violent and evil they actually were.

Its really such a hard spot to be in for the movie.

You cant just claim the injuns skinned the governor alive and not drop any source material. Chat gpt claims.

There isn’t any documented case of an actual colonial governor being skinned alive by indigenous women in the early days of English or other European colonization of North America. The stories that circulate online are almost all apocryphal, often derived from 19th‑century sensationalist accounts or later fictional works.

And disney painting something in a cute innocent light? Say it aint so! I doubt it had anything to do with their brand and target audience. I always thought it was funny how fairys were depicted as cute tiny little things when the reality is they were often blamed for stealing children and eating them.

But let me ask you something, the indians did some bad shit, but do you really believe the other side was innocent in what they did? There was a reason that our government wants to hide these stories. And its not because they are trying to make the indians look good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTKogX9O7dY

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ratcliffe_(governor)

So you obviously mean this, thing is I cant find any proof that this actually happened. There seems to be zero references popping in google books.

Just a reddit thread referencing this one wiki article?

https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jo48ff/til_jamestown_governor_john_ratcliffe_the_villain/

Im going to keep reading, but ive yet to find the original account of this. According to that reddit thread, it was retribution for kidnapping and holding the chiefs kids hostage. :shrugs:

Like I said before there were hundreds of different tribes/nations. They all had different beliefs. Some tribes would have ate him prolly.

Lol for something that supposedly happened its hard to find any references to it. I found this?

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Making_of_Virginia_and_the_Middle_Co/46lBAAAAYAAJ

Where it mentions on page 47,

So Ratcliffe was removed, and smith became president.

This was the condition of affairs at jamestown when in may, 1610, one whole year after leaving England, Gates and Somers arrived there. Of four hundred colonists, no more than sixty were alive. Gates were thrown down, ports flung open, houses in ruins. Even the palisade had been burned for firewood.

He found jamestown in a most wretched state. The colonists had killed and eaten all their live stock, even to the horses; the country round had been swept clean; the indians were hostile; and gaunt want seemed stalking only one step behind them.

Sounds bleak.

Yep, all I could really find was the "great" massacre, where the indians actually slaughtered about 300 some colonialist because they, the colonialist wanted the lands to grow tobacco on. Most of them died from starvation though, not indian attacks.

Both sides were full of shitheads, no doubt.

Apparently pocahontas did warn the main jamestown settlement about the impending attack, but the other settlements werent so lucky...