Hello,
I posted awhile back, my name is Jeanie and I write a blog. I write about genealogy in general and sometimes about mythical Indian ancestors. I just ordered a book by Dr. Linwood Custalow about the 'real story about what happened to Pocahontas." His version of the story is not the Disney version. He says that his version is based on the Sacred Oral History of the Mattaponi Tribe.
I know nothing about the content of the history, passed orally, by any tribe, or what it might contain. I'm curious about the possibility that the story of this young woman, who no one (white folk) wrote about from 1625 until the 1830's and really not until just recently, would be passed from generation to generation among the survivors of the Mattaponi's for almost four hundred years.
We've all played the game where a message gets passed from one person to the next and by the time it gets back to the original sender it's botched. Do Native American treat their oral history like some people treat the Bible, as Gospel truth? Is there room for error? Was this guy just trying to make a buck on a great story?
Hope you don't mind me asking.
Jeanie
