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Pocahontas Was a Mistake, and Here's Why! - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The subject of the Disney Company and its portrayal of indigenous peoples in service of the Disney brand is massive.
      - Americans are kind of obsessed with this idea of blood quantums
    - - Pocahontas was aged up the historical figure into a sexy Barbie doll.
- - - - This movie takes place in New York
        (this was filmed in Toronto).
  - - - that's the problem: there isn't really a line.
      - Moana
        
        no matter how respectful or well researched, there is always going to be some level of appropriation.
      - We've had four more Disney features with indigenous protagonists since Pocahontas, two of which involved said protagonists turning into large mammals in order to learn a lesson.
        
        The Emperor's New Groove
        
        Brother Bear
      - So they used music that most people hadn't heard of that had nothing to do with the context of the film in order to make the scene sound more magical
        
        Nani sing Aloha Oe
- - - - Ad-venture will always be trumped by the proverbial bottom line
  - - - In Pocahontas, spirit grandma tells her that she's obligated to fix the mess that other people made, but in Moana Spirit grandma concedes that it wasn't fair for her to put that responsibility on a literal child.