Pocahontas, as an example, was a child when she was used as a tool by invaders to get what they wanted and then abducted to another country. Her sister was also put in danger and ultimately Pocahontas died in a land not her own under circumstances that suggested murder. She was just one of many.
“Jacques Cartier and Christopher Columbus, and these people that are kind of treated like they’re heroes and are celebrated explorers, actually had a very dark side which was abducting Native people and taking them to Europe.” #Indigenous #Métis #books #film #history
Métis/Cree filmmaker Barbara Todd Hager will be adapting the award-winning book On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe to a three-part docudrama series titled On Distant Shores. ...
I have a female ancestor who was also abducted from an east coast tribe in the same manner, torn away from her own people and land and taken to somewhere in England and it's fair to assume the rest of her life was hell from there on in.