Pocahontas (English spelling)

Japanese: ポカホンタス（英語表記）Pocahontas

Born: Around 1595, near Jamestown, Virginia
[Died] March 1617. Daughter of the chief of the Powhatan tribe of Native Americans in Kent. Also known as Matoaka. She married J. Rolfe, one of the settlers of Jamestown, the first British colony in North America, which began construction in 1607, and who succeeded in improving tobacco cultivation. In 1616, she was invited to London with Rolfe to promote the Virginia Company as an example of the Christianization of Native Americans and the success of colonization efforts, and was celebrated in high society as an American princess, but she died of illness the following year before returning home in 1617. The peace between the settlers and the natives symbolized by this marriage was short-lived with the great Powhatan uprising in 1622. In his writings, J. Smith, one of the founders of Jamestown, described how she was saved by her plea for mercy when she was captured and about to be killed by the Powhatan tribe, but the truth of this is unknown. Her life was later used as the subject of novels and plays, and the "Story of Pocahontas" was created and mythologized.

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Japanese:

[生]1595頃.バージニア，ジェームズタウン付近
[没]1617.3. ケント
アメリカインディアンのポーハタン族族長の娘。別名マトアカ Matoaka。 1607年に建設が開始されたイギリス最初の北アメリカ植民地ジェームズタウンへの入植者の一人でたばこ栽培の改良に成功した J.ロルフと結婚。アメリカ先住民のキリスト教化と植民事業の成功の実例として，バージニア会社の宣伝のため 16年ロルフとともにロンドンに招かれ，アメリカの王女として上流社交界でもてはやされたが，翌 17年帰国を前に病没した。この結婚に象徴される入植者と先住民の平和は 22年のポーハタン族大蜂起によりつかのまに終った。ジェームズタウン建設者の一人 J.スミスはその著作で，ポーハタン族に捕えられ殺されようとしたとき彼女の助命嘆願で救われたてんまつを述べたが，真偽のほどは不明。後世彼女の生涯は小説や戯曲の題材とされ「ポカホンタス物語」が作られ神話化された。

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