Settler AestheticsIn Settler Aesthetics, an analysis of renowned director Terrence Malicks 2005 film, The New World, Mishuana Goeman examines the continuity of imperialist exceptionalism and settler colonial aesthetics. The story of Pocahontas has thrived for centuries as a cover for settler colonial erasure, destruction, and violence against Native peoples, and Native women in particular. Since the romanticized story of the encounter and relationship between