One hundred members of NatChat, an electronic mail discussion group concerned with Native American issues, responded to the recent Disney release Pocahontas by calling on parents to boycott the movie, citing its historical inaccuracies and saying that Disney has let us down in a cruel, irresponsible manner. Their anger was rooted in the fact that, although Disney claimed that the film's portrayal of American Indians would be authentic, the Pocahontas story their movie told was really white cultural myth. The actual histories of the characters were replaced by mythic narratives...