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Oh, I have a new one--

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that my students went
to the Smithsonian.

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This is in Southern Maryland.

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And they saw the picture of
she who was called Pocahontas.

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First of all, they
told me that wasn't her

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because they'd seen the Disney
movie-- animation, mind you.

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And so, she didn't
look like that.

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Now, I think they
thought she looked

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a lot like the animation.

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I don't know.

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And they thought the romance
was so beautiful, you know?

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And I was amazed, as I often
am, about young people.

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This poem is called "Mataoka."

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And the whole story about
her being in love with him--

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first of all, she was
supposed to be 12 or 14,

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and he was an older man.

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And it might be an
older man's fantasy,

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but I don't believe she fell
in love with John Smith.

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But I could be wrong.

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I always take into account
that I could be wrong.

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And this is her take
on the story thus far.

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"Mataoka"-- actual
name of Pocahontas.

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"In the dream, was white men
walking up from the river.

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In the dream, was
our land stolen away

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and our horses and our names.

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In the dream was my father
fighting to save us.

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In the dream, the
pipe was broken,

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and I was leaning my body across
the whimpering, white man.

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If our father loves revenge
more than he loves his children,

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spoke the dream, we
need to know it now.

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Think of the president,
if you will--

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if you can-- if it
doesn't bother you."