Except, of course, that [Pocahontas] is a savage. She actually does not know any better. Her people are illiterate and polygamous and live in longhouses or wigwams with timber logs for walls, or woven mats, and dirt floors. No chimney. No window. No glass in the window.

Nor, to be honest, would any Englishmen of the time speak of teaching or improving the natives they came to conquer. It was the Catholic Spanish who (against the wishes of the Spanish military governors) sent missionaries to the New World to baptize the heathens, teach them letters, and so on, and often get martyred for their efforts. But, of course, we can give credit to John Smith for being very English about the matter, and having the attitude of Victorian social reformers.

The English, however, did trade tools and weapons with the savages in return for food and furs, and the Indians also generously gave provisions to keep the newcomers from starving.

But none of this can be allowed to intrude into the stupid simplicity of the politically correct propaganda, which requires bullies to be flat and cardboard caricatures of evil, and requires victims to be flat and cardboard caricatures of goodness.