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Beyond Disney: A 1616 portrait of Pocahontas shows how English colonizers saw Indigenous Americans

religionnewsMonday, June 29, 2026

(The Conversation) — The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.

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