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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm sorry about the pain, sarameg.
I threw my back out tonight, now it feels like I have a little knife poking into my left hip. Fun. Can't snuggle my weebles to sleep, in fact I hope the naproxen hits before I go to be or I'm not sure how well I'll sleep myself.
I remember at a trivia night a few months ago, many people mixed up Pocahontas and Sacajawea.
There's a Simpsons episode that makes exactly this joke (with Lisa playing the part of Sacajawea, and Lenny and Carl playing the parts of Louis and Clark.
Yeah "the name Pocohontas is recognised almost all over the world" is a wee bit of overstatement.
Interestingly enough the native Americans in the doc had no trace of an accent that distinguished them from the white people, and while they looked different, they looked different differently than I was expecting, if that makes sense. I was surprised. I've never been sure what's responsibile for the appearance that there's one native American accent, and that it spreads into Canada too.
Maybe you're used to more of the more populous tribes, ita? And/or the ones in the central/southcentral US? The ones on the East Coast aren't populous/seen a lot in popular culture, necessarily. (Not that I have any idea if those were the ones being shown, but I'm hazarding a guess, if it was about Pocahantas....)
Huh. I knew the Pocahontas story, but that was mostly because I spent one summer reading every one of this series of kids biographies at the local library. (It was an odd series. Generally about 90% of the book was about the person's life as a kid, and then a few pages about what they did as adults. Also, every one was exactly 200 pages. If the text itself didn't get to 200, then there would be timelines or lists of places they lived or other stuff like that thrown onto the end to make it to 200.)
My library had these, too! For some reasons the ones about Robert E. Lee, Sitting Bull, and Tecumseh are the ones that stuck in my head, but I must've read at least a dozen of them.
Hold on, sarameg. It's Thursday morning here already, and I wish I could trade time zones with you today.
(It was an odd series. Generally about 90% of the book was about the person's life as a kid, and then a few pages about what they did as adults. Also, every one was exactly 200 pages. If the text itself didn't get to 200, then there would be timelines or lists of places they lived or other stuff like that thrown onto the end to make it to 200.)
This sounds like the series at my grade 3-5 school that I zipped through back in the mid-70s. They even had a "biography" for Virginia Dare, in which they made up an entire life for her after the Lost Colony disappeared, complete with an explanation for "CROATAN" carved on the tree.
The ones on the East Coast aren't populous/seen a lot in popular culture, necessarily.
I had had no idea.
My library had these, too! For some reasons the ones about Robert E. Lee, Sitting Bull, and Tecumseh are the ones that stuck in my head, but I must've read at least a dozen of them.
The ones that I remember most are Helen Keller (because I was obsessed with her anyway), Herbert Hoover, and Mary Mapes Dodge. Also Abe Lincoln. I think I read all the ones that the library had, which was probably at least 40 or so.
Are these the little orange cloth-bound books, with silhouettes as illustrations? I had my mom's (including a Virginia Dare one!) and loved them. I think she had Jane Addams, Dolley Madison, Mary Todd, and Clara Barton.