Pocahontas Marries John Rolfe
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2m 21s
In this scene, Pocahontas is proposed to by (and then marries) John Rolfe

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In this scene, the native Powhatan fight the Jamestown settlers. In reality, the Anglo-Powhatan Wars were fought between these parties for a number of years. The clip also illustrates how the European settlers denigrated the Native Americans' beliefs.
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