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Abrams, Ann Uhry. The Pilgrims and Pocahontas: Rival Myths Of American Origin. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999.

Aidman, Amy. "Disney's Pocahontas: Conversations with Native American and Euro-American Girls." Growing
Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity. Ed. Sharon R. Mazzareall and Norma Odom
Pecora. New York

Arber, Edward, ed. Travel and Works of Captain John Smith: President of Virginia and Admiral of New England. New York: Burt Franklin, 1910.

The Baptism of Pocahontas http://www.lehigh.edu/~sat4/poca/pocahontas.htm [Archived]

Barbour, Philip L., ed. The Complete Works of Captain John Smith (1580-1631). 3 vols. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1986.

Barrows, Floyd. H-Net Movie Review: Pocahontas http://h-net2.msu.edu/~wciv/archives/logs/july95/0007.html [Archived]

Bataille, Gretchen M., and Bob Hicks. “American Indians in Popular Films.” Beyond the Stars. Vol. 1. Eds. Paul Loukides and Linda Fuller. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State UP, 1990.

Bennett, William J. Our Children and Our Country: Improving America’s Schools and Affirming the Common Culture. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

A Brief History of Jamestown http://www.apva.org/history/index [Archived]

Bruckwicki, J. “Symbolism." University of Michigan’s Symbolism Dictionary. http://english.tyler.cc.tx.us/jbru/1302-internet/symbol.htm [Archived]

Buckland, Carol. “Walt Disney’s ‘Pocahontas.'" http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/Pocahantas/index.html

Buescher, Derek T., and Kent A. Ono. “Civilized Colonialism: Pocahontas as Neocolonial Rhetoric.” Women’s Studies in Communication 19.2 (1996): 127-53.

Carr, Jay. “Disney’s Pocahontas: Rate it PC.” Boston Globe 16 June 1995: 59.

Corliss, Richard. “Princess of the Spirit.” Time 19 June 1995: 59.

Corliss, Richard. “Princess of the Spirit.” Time 19 June 1995: 59.

Cortes, Carlos E. "Them and Us: Immigration as Social Barometer and Social Educator in American Film." Hollywood As Mirror: Changing Views of "Outsiders" and "Enemies" in American Movies. Ed. Robert Brent Toplin. Westport: Greenwood P, 1993.

d’Entremont, John. “Pocahontas.” Journal of American History 82.3 (1995): 1302-5.

Disney’s Homepage http://www.disney.com

Edgerton, Gary, and Kathy Merlock Jackson. “Redesigning Pocahontas.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 24.2 (1996): 90-98.

Emerson, Everett, and Pattie Cowell, eds. Captain John Smith. Revised Edition. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993.

Faery, Rebecca B. Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex in the Shaping of an American Nation. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1999.

Felperin, Leslie. “Pocahontas." Sight and Sound (1995): 57-58.

Fitzgerald, Frances. America Revisited: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century. New York: Vintage Books, 1980.

Garner, Jack. “Pocahontas is Pure Pleasure; and Mel Gibson Sings, Too!” Gannett News Service 15 June 1995.

Gleach, Frederic W. Powhatan’s World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures. Omaha: U of Nebraska P, 1997. 106-22.

Henke, Jill Birnie, Diane Zimmerman Umble, and Nancy J. Smith. “Construction of the Female Self: Feminist Readings of the Disney Heroine.” Women’s Studies in Communication 19.2 (1996) 229-49.

Hubbell, Jay B., “The Smith-Pocahontas Story in Literature.” Virginia Magazine 65.3 (1957): 274-300.

Hume, Ivor Noel. “Pocahontas: Savior or Savage?” http://theweboftime.com/Issue-1/Poca/POCAHO~1.html [Archived]

Indian Opinions about Pocahontas http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/poca/pocind [Archived]

Jamestowne Society Homepage http://www.jamestowne.org/

Kilpatrick, Jacquelyn. “Disney’s ‘Politically Correct’ Pocahontas.” Cineaste 21.4 (1995): 36. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Pocahontas.html

Maslin, Janet. “History as Buckskin-Clad Fairy Tale.” New York Times 11 June 1995: 46.

Morenus, David. “The Real Pocahontas” http://pocahontas.morenus.org/

Morton,Charlene. “Pocahontas Film Review.” http://post.queensu.ca/~grime/v4n2.html#5.%20%20Film%20Review:%20Pocahontas

Mossiker, Frances. Pocahontas: the Life and the Legend. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996.

Muldoon, Paul. “Barbie, but no Bimbo.” Times Literary Supplement 13 October 1995: 21.

The Pocahontas Archive http://www.lehigh.edu/~ejg1/pocahontas/poca-title

Pocahontas Myth http://www.powhatan.org/pocc.html

Pocahontas, Half-Raced and Fully Sexed: The Almost Empty Signifier and American Icongraphy. The American Studies Group, The University of Virginia. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/POCA/POC_race.html

Pocahontas: Ambassador of the New World. A Perpetual Motions Production, A&E Television Network, 1995.

Pocahontas: Evidence and Conjecture, A Research Project. Ed. Thomas Pearcy, Ph.D., Mary Dickson, and David Purdon. W. W. Norton Pub. 23 January 1998. http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/tindall/resrchnf/pocahont [Archived]

Pocahontas: Her True Story. All American Video Productions, 1995.

“Pocahontas: Press Kit.” Burbank: Walt Disney Pictures, 1995.

Pocahontas: The Legend. Dir. Danielle J. Suissa. Protocol Entertainment, 1994.

Rasmussen, William, and Robert S. Tilton. Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994.

The Real Pocahontas http://pocahontas.morenus.org/

Rogers, Patrick. “A True Legend: Life of Pocahontas.” People Weekly 10 July 1995: 79.

Rollins, Peter C., and John E. O’Connor. Hollywood’s Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1998.

Rosenstone, Robert A. Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995.

Rosenzweig, Illene.  “And Disney Created Woman." Allure (June 1995): 81-83.

Salem, Rob. "Indian Princess is No Lion King." Toronto Star 23 June 1995: D1.

Schlesinger, Arthur M. The Disuniting of America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1992.

Sterritt, David. Rev. of Pocahontas. Christian Science Monitor 23 June 1995: 12.

Strachey, William. The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania. 1612. Eds. Louis B. Wright and Virginia Freund. London, Hakluyt Society, 1953.

Strong, Pauline Turner. “Pocahontas” H-WORLD 30 June 1995 http://www.h-net.org/mmreviews/showrev.cgi?path=41

Thomas, Rick. History of Christianity in North America. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986: 1-16.

Tilton, Robert S. Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.

Turan, Kenneth. “Disney Tries Again to Find the Magic; The Kids May Like it but the Adult Viewers May feel that ‘Pocahontas’ is More By-The-Numbers than Inspired.” Los Angeles Times 16 June 1995: F1.

Virtual Jamestown http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/

Wasowicz, Laura. “The Children’s Pocahontas: From Gentle Child of the Wild to All-American Heroine.” American Antiquarian Society 105.2 (1995): 377-415.

Westbrook, Bruce. “Pocahontas; From History to Fairy Tale; Disney Movie Romanticizes Story of Princess.” Houston Chronicle 18 May 1995: 1.

Woodward, Grace Steele. Pocahontas. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1969.

Young Pocahontas. UAV,1994.