Native Americans and settlers have always been fighting over land, and in the cutscene Pocahontas explains it in a different way. They were fighting because the Native Americans had captured John Smith from the settlers. This fight was interrupted because Pocahontas rushed in the face of the potential murder of John Smith. She did it because she loved him and also didn't want anyone to fight, she told her father what she had caused by capturing him from the colonists. Mike Gabriel inaccurately portrayed the conflict between the colonists and the Native Americans because they never fought and it was stopped by the love between a Pocahontas, a Native American and John Smith, a European. Europeans and Native Americans never liked each other. Mike Gabriel portrays the source of conflict as the love story between Pocahontas and John Smith and these two sides never liked each other, they always fought, they fought mostly over land and those battles were always bloody. An example of love in the movie is when Pocahontas' father was about to hit John Smith with his cane and Pocahontas jumped on John Smith to block the blow of the cane (Gabriel, 1995). Mike immediately cut to Pocahontas' reaction scene so the audience could see her reaction. This humanized her because her reaction was very sad and crazy at the same time, those feelings are normal for a human being. These elements contribute to the film's inaccurate portrayal of Mike Gabriel because in the real world the Native Americans would have killed him because love wouldn't stop anything because they had total hatred for each other. The source of the conflict between the Native Americans and the European settlers was the land, they always fought for the land, they... middle of paper......http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo /natcult.htm>."Mohawk Tribe." Access the RSS genealogy. Accessgenealogy.org, May 8, 2010. Web. October 13, 2013. .Yeld, Todd A., MS. “Fact Sheet on the Mohawk Indian.” Facts for Kids: Mohawk Indians (Mohawk). Mohawk Tribe, March 3, 2010. Web. October 13, 2013. .Summer, Julie M. "Mohawk | Cultural Survival." Mohawk | Cultural survival. An Action Guide to Cultural Survival, September 18, 2009. Web. November 15, 2013. Ryan, April Y. “Facts about the Mohawk Indian Tribe.” MOHAWK INDIAN TRIBE FACTS. Mohawk Tribe Facts, May 16, 2011. Web. Nov. 15. 2013. .