It’s time to hear the true story of Pocahontas.
In this alternative audio track, Pocahontas - or to use her real name, Matoaka - is the narrator and setting the historical record straight. Her story that was originally told as a romantic adventure, is in reality the story of one of the first documented Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women - the first of many sisters. 

This adaptation aims to answer one of the many calls for justice made in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’ Final Report. 			

Call for Justice 6.1 tasks us to “Take proactive steps to break down the stereotypes that hypersexualize and demean Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people, and to end practices that perpetuate myths that Indigenous women are more sexually available and ‘less worthy’ than non-Indigenous women because of their race or background.”

By retelling Matoaka’s story, from an Indigenous perspective, the narrative shifts to the truth. Stereotypes of hyper-sexualization are broken down and the values that maintain colonial violence are confronted in this new script. 

Change cannot wait. The time for justice is now and we all have a part to play.

Missing Matoaka

It’s time to hear the true story of Pocahontas.

Play this alternative audio over a common movie about Pocahontas to learn the real story.

MissingMatoaka

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