Pocahontas was harshly criticized by Chief Roy Crazy Horse as historically inaccurate and offensive for glossing over more negative treatment of Pocahontas and her tribe by the English. He claims that Roy Disney refused the tribe’s offers to help create a more culturally and historically accurate film.
You can read his entire statement on the subject, which includes the factual story of Matoka, or “Pocahontas” as she was nicknamed, here, on the official website of the Powhatan Renape Nation.
I recommend reading the above linked piece- it’s pretty short, but will give you a very clear understanding of the history/the accurate account v. the myth/Powhatan response to the movie.
Chapter 11 of A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The motivation and rhetoric of labor movements in the late nineteenth century sounds eerily familiar after an autumn following the Occupy movement. It’s the same struggle. This chapter is powerful and eye-opening.
This lovely Anne Boleyn waxwork was made by very talented Emily Pooley. Emily’s beautiful waxwork of Anne is based on Hans Holbein sketch inscribed “Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, 2nd wife of Henry VIII, mother of Queen Elizabeth, was beheaded in London on 19 May 1536”. Waxwork is currently on display in Hever Castle as a part of “A Royal Romance” exhibition, from 1st March to 18th November 2012 in the Castle’s Long Gallery. The gown on Anne Boleyn’s wax figure is a replica of the real gown worn by Anne during her coronation.
Racist thought tends to be banal and repetitive, yet the circuitous routes by which racist ideas seize on the cultural imagination of whole peoples, the intersections between their reductionist formulas and the irreducible complexity of historical events, and the way they imprint themselves on other social, political, and intellectual trends present the most complicated of analytical problems.
— Margaret Hunt, “Racism, Imperialism, and the Traveler’s Gaze in Eighteenth-Century England,” The Journal of British Studies 32:4 (1993).
From the postmodernist perspective, every discourse, every text, every document, every artifact, is just one representation of reality; one narrative among many, and inevitably, one constructed by the most powerful elements in society. Nothing is neutral and nothing is objective.
— Joseph Deodato, “Becoming Responsible Mediators: The Application of Postmodern Perspectives to Archival Arrangement and Description” (via thefriendlyarchivist)
I started this blog while I was an intern there, and if you go back far enough you can read my posts about Inuit Art, guiding tours, and all sorts of really fun stuff. I highly recommend that anyone interested in museums, the Arctic, the history of exploration, indigenous peoples of the North, or anything related to follow their tumblr! It’s also an excellent resource for anyone interested in seeing what goes on behind the scenes at a museum, or finding out what it’s like to be a museum intern - the tumblr is run by the smart, funny Molly T., and I’m sure she’d be happy to answer any questions left in the ask box!
So I’ll be reblogging from them quite frequently in the future, and I hope everyone goes and checks it out for themselves!
I was 13 years old when Marc Lépine opened fire and murdered 14 women for being at engineering school when he wasn’t. He blamed feminism for the situation he was in, and murdered these women for being in non-traditional jobs, for being there.
Every year, the memorials I go to are different. Some are quiet - I remember several winters in the snow, holding candles and reciting names like a talisman against violence.
Geneviève Bergeron, 21 years old. Hélène Colgan, 24 years old. Nathalie Croteau, 24 years old.
When I was younger, they seemed impossibly mature and sophisticated. I used to imagine them laughing and enjoying university, cut down without warning. Now that I’m 35, they seem so young, and I wonder if they were afraid.
