Disney has a cartoon "Pocahonta", in which the heroine is based on the Porta Cahons mentioned in this article. Portacahons, an Indian woman who lived only twenty-two years old, was torn between colonists and tribes, and her life was short and tragic.
Portacahons was the daughter of a chieftain of the Powhatan tribe of North American Indians and can be said to be an Indian princess. If it weren't for the arrival of the English colonists, perhaps Portacahons would have married the prince of another Indian tribe and lived the same life as her father's daughter.
Unfortunately, near the Powhatan tribe where she grew up, a powerful group of uninvited guests, the English colonists, established the colony of Jamestown, which later became known as Virginia. In the first few years of their arrival, the English colonists fell into famine, and they went to rob the Powhatan tribe of food, so the two sides feuded.
In the eyes of the Powhatan tribesmen, these strangers are robbers, and they should all be killed or driven away. So, the conflict between the two sides has been constant.
At that time, Portacahons's attitude towards the English colonists was different from that of his father, brothers, and other bigwigs. Potacahons wants peace between the two sides and the conflict as much as possible. To this end, she once sold corn and other grains to the English colonists, and once saved the life of Captain John Smith, the first governor of the Jamestown colony, by accident.
With powerful foreign colonists on one side and stubborn native tribes on the other, there is really a limit to what a weak woman can do in Potacahons. Later, Sir Dale, the Governor of the Jamestown Colony, launched a two-year attack on the Powhatan tribe, and Portakahons was unfortunately kidnapped by the English.
Unfortunately, Potacahuns' father, the chief of the Powhatan tribe, was unwilling to spend money to redeem his daughter, so he treated it as if he had not raised him.
So, in 1614, at the age of nineteen, Portacahons converted to Christianity and married John Rolfe, an Englishman, a plantation owner in the colony who was the first English plantation owner to start growing wild tobacco.
The princess of the Indian tribe converted to Christianity and married an Englishman, which caused a huge sensation in England at that time. Portakahons also returned to England with her husband and was received by King James I of England.
If Portakahons had been a long-lived man, perhaps there would really have been a channel of communication between the English colonists and the Indian tribes, which would have resolved a lot of conflicts between the two sides and killed a lot of people. Unfortunately, Portacahons only lived to be twenty-two years old.
In 1622, five years after her death, the then chief of the Indian Powhatan tribe was the younger brother of Potacahons. He led his people in a massive attack on the English colonists, killing 347 of them.
In the eyes of the English, Portacahons was a messenger of peace, a peacemaker who tried to resolve conflicts between the two sides, and if there had been a Nobel Peace Prize at that time, perhaps she would have been very deserving of it.
However, to the recalcitrant Indian tribal bosses, Potacahons is a sinner, a tribal traitor, and it is better to get him back with a thousand cuts.
Why do these Indian tribal bosses hate Potacahons so much? To put it bluntly, it is still the interests of a few people. Before the English came, the Indian tribes were slaves, and those tribal bigwigs were all superior people, not to mention how comfortable life was.
The English colonists came, not only robbing them of their land and food, but also propagating an idea that was more advanced than slavery to the lower Indians, at least to let the lower Indians get rid of slavery and become a free man. This is absolutely unacceptable to the Indian tribal bosses.
How could a high-ranking Indian tribal boss accept that the cow and horse-like clansmen who groveled in front of him suddenly became equal to him?
Later, after the broadcast of "Pocahonta", the animated film was also strongly criticized by Indian tribal leaders, who believed that Disney distorted the facts and glorified their traitors and sinners. A special mention here, why are there only Indian tribal leaders**? Why don't ordinary Indians **?