Pocahontas and the Historical Bias in Walt Disney’s Productions

Abstract

y the end of 1970s, colonialism wound down, but the era of Eurocentrism commenced, which give the west the ability to take control of Media . Thus, history and culture of the colonised nations were represented from their perspective. The original inhabitants of America were among the nations that were subjected to colonialism. So, their history and culture were distorted. Disney, which is considered as a grand narratives , is one of the Western media companies, that are accused by historical bias and Eurocentrism , and that was the case in Pocahontas. But nine years after Disney released its movie, a book was published by Native Americans, it denies The story of Disney, after that, minor narratives were produced and they all denied Disney ‘s story. To what degree Disney’s historical representation is accurate to the real history. Hence, The goal of this research is to provide an answer to the question asked . The result was that to a certain extent Disney was not accurate.