The Girl Called Pocahontas
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The Girl Called Pocahontas

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 1, 202333 min
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For most of us, this story began as a fairy tale.

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This podcast is a co-production of ABC Australia and CBC Podcasts. For most of us, this story began as a fairy tale. As, you know, a Disney film and this princess. Daughter of the mighty chief Palhatten.

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The fact that there's this daughter of a chief. She was the friend of the earliest struggling English colonists. Pocahontas, the Indian princess who falls in love with a settler. This suave, lots of blonde hair and, like, fit guy.

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Whom she nobly rescued, protected and helped. Cutesy girl who fell in love with this cutesy man. People think it's an easy story. It's a beautiful love story.

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