In which Disney film does the title character sing of the interconnectedness of humankind and the natural world in "Colors of the Wind"?

In Pocahontas, our Native American title heroine has much wisdom to impart to the conquering colonist John Smith. . . and she manages to pack a lot of these lessons into "Colors of the Wind.” In this beloved, Oscar-winning song, Pocahontas urges a total overhaul of Smith's basic world view that nature and people are things to control or own. She sings of the spirit that exists in all living things (including her "brothers,” the "rainstorm and the river") and the value of every human being, even when they don't "look and think like you.” Cleverly turning an insult on its head, she also points out the hypocrisy of violent Europeans calling Native Americans "savages.” In the film, she shoves Smith's gun at him as she sings: "You think I'm an ignorant savage. . . But still I cannot see, If the savage one is me.”

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