What Disney Missed: The Truth About Pocahontas and Opechancanough

To celebrate Thanksgiving, we are diving into Native American history with the story of Chief Opechancanough. While he has been overshadowed by his relative Pocahontas, his legacy looms large in both U.S. history and medicine. He singlehandedly defended Virginia from Spanish and English colonization for decades, all while battling the debilitating neurological disease myasthenia gravis.

Plus: What Disney got wrong about Pocahontas. Riley regales us with a song she learned in the fourth grade. Should we be cancelled for our Mayflower connection?

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