Fourth grade students "know about" Pocahontas, but is this knowledge based on historical fact, or on information from the media, specifically the Disney movies "Pocahontas" and "Pocahontas II"? To address this question within the context of the New York State Social Studies curriculum and the New York State English Language Arts standards, the author created a critical literacy and history unit of study in which students compared the fictionalized accounts of Native American life and the biography of Pocahontas as shown in the Disney movies with historical accounts from other sources, such as encyclopedia articles, websites, books, and magazine articles. The historical inaccuracies of the Disney movies are discussed in this article. (Contains 4 figures and 27 notes.)