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In America, the general audience is used to seeing many things portrayed on the silver screen, but many times what they see is not always necessarily all there is to the story. In Gary Edgerton and Kathy Merlock Jackson's essay "Redesigning Pocahontas," the famous Native American figure is redesigned by the Walt Disney Company to meet the expectations of critics and audiences around the country, but leave out much of the truth behind Pocahontas' story in the process. Walt Disney's version of this renowned story has been changed to a commercialized rendition that only feeds on what America recognizes as the "Hollywood Indian," but doesn't that go against what Disney was trying to do with the movie in the first place? Although the film company's intention was to accurately depict the life of a famous Native American, the Walt Disney Company knowingly changed the image of Pocahontas and her story in the hopes that Americans could associate more with her character and of having a better chance at increasing their profits from movie sales and other merchandise. The authors begin by going into detail about why it is that the Walt Disney Company decided to make this movie in the first place, and why they felt the need to ma