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A review by mmarvin01
Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat by Paula Gunn Allen
3.0
This biography was hit or miss for me. I appreciated the insights into indigenous perspectives, but the writing was highly speculative and often got in the way. Some parts were oddly repetitive, while other parts skipped over vital information and presumed knowledge of later plots before they had been introduced. One highlight was the archetypal abduction narrative including Pocahontas, Sacagawea, and Malinalli.
“Their mission was defined, ignited, and energized by those forces or powers that lie behind, beyond, and beneath the mundane. They did what they did because they were how they were, because that was what time it was, and because their personal characteristics, combined with their training, social conditioning, and the astronomical-quantum standing wave that was the time/space they moved in, made it so. These women were born to be agents of change.”
“Their mission was defined, ignited, and energized by those forces or powers that lie behind, beyond, and beneath the mundane. They did what they did because they were how they were, because that was what time it was, and because their personal characteristics, combined with their training, social conditioning, and the astronomical-quantum standing wave that was the time/space they moved in, made it so. These women were born to be agents of change.”