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POCAHONTAS Think you know Pocahontas? Think again. Historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman, BA ’61, rejects Disney clichés to deliver a harrowing new portrait of a young woman — and several English boys — caught precariously between cultures. Rarely given credit, these teenage emissaries often held the fate of the New World in their hands. BY CARSON VAUGHAN
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