It's the 16th century. Would you pick up Pocahontas?

[Deja Q]

[Kutjara]

1. Totally. But I wouldn't drag her back to England....

...to be a freakshow. I'd settle down with the tribe (if they'd have me) and leave all that 'Age of Exploration' macho bullshit behind.

And I'd probably try to get the message out that it's a good idea to blow away any white face that sets foot on the shore.

[Ignacio Upton]

2. You might have been better off with the Powhatans

They actually bathed, unlike the English during that time, who only bathed every few weeks or only monthly.

[Kutjara]

4. You're being charitable.

I think a semi-annual bath was the norm among the ruling class in Europe at the time. Baths were considered dangerous and inimical to good health. Clothes-changing was also a rarity, with one suit per person being fairly typical. I believe the sales of perfume rocketed in those days.

The poor native Americans (or whatever the correct collective name for the inhabitants of this continent were before we renamed them) must have nearly fainted when they encountered the first settlers.

[idgiehkt]

7. yeah I've read they thought whites stunk like hell.

and somewhere I read the thought the hankerchief was one of the most unclean things they'd ever seen, blowing your nose on a cloth and then folding it up and putting it in your clothes...

[av8rdave]

3. If she was good enough for Neil Young, then she's good enough for me

[matcom]

5. what does she charge?

[NJ Democrats]

6. Yes

She is the chief's daughter after all

[rug]

8. I'd wait until the 17th century.

[Deja Q]

9. Isn't that sort of thing illegal in 47 states?

:yoiks:

[Aristus]

10. Nah. She was twelve or thirteen at the time, partially shaven bald

and had a temperamental father. Not for me.

[bleedingheart]

11. Well John Rolfe apparently found her becoming...

my son is learning about them in school this week.