pains to demonstrate her role as a shaman-priestess following her dream-vision. Allen (p. 81) maintains that Pocahontas was much different than the barely pubescent girl of Anglo-American biographies or accounts of her life, but was instead ôby birth, vision, training, and circumstance the agent of change.ö In AllenÆs account of Pocahontas, we are treated to a powerful shaman-priestess whose dream-visions spell the oncoming destruction of the Native American people by the Anglo-American colonists. However, in following her dream-vision, Pocahontas is able to exert enormous influence as an a
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