Falling in love can't save the Indians!
Wind in the Wind is a 1995 Disney animated film featuring Indian Princess Bulgar Conti and set in the 16th-17th centuries during the American colonial era.
At that time, Disney pioneered cultural themes outside european and American civilizations, based on China's Mulan (1998), and Indian civilization with Boga Conti.
Mulan is loved by Chinese, and Westerners understand her story of defending her family, while Bulgar Conti is completely different. The feud between the Indians and the European colonizers, which has not yet been resolved, is part of the racial problem in American society.
The story of "Wind in the Wind" takes place during the colonial plunder period, which is also disney's first work with a real historical prototype.
Quite a bloody history of colonial plunder, how to adapt Disney's?
In "Stranger in the Wind", the Indian princess Boca Conti bravely rescues the British explorers, persuades her Indians to live in peace with the Europeans, and she and the explorer fall in love, thus defusing the story of a war between other races.
In the end, of course, Disney's usual love & peace.
Love & peace!
The Indians are very ridiculous!
The prototype of Bulgar Conti, in the eyes of the Indians, was the "traitor".
As we all know, on August 3, 1492, in order to trade with India and China, the king of Spain sent Columbus to lead three sailing ships to the Atlantic Ocean, and Columbus discovered the American continent, and the American continent began to have European immigrants one after another.
Most of the Europeans who first arrived in the Americas were persecuted and fled their homes, and when they first went to the Americas, the supplies were scarce, and the Indians sent food and drink, which was Thanksgiving.
Ironically, later Europeans began a massive persecution of indians in order to plunder land and wealth.
The archetype of Boca Conti is an Indian princess, born in 1592, originally known as Poca Hongtas, meaning mischievous, a cute and lively little princess, and her father Powhatan was a famous Chief of the Virginia Indians.
At that time, the British Empire was fighting about religious problems, the Puritans and Anglicans, Catholics did not deal with it, and the policy of King James II was unstable, so many people went to the Americas.
British ships docked in Virginia in search of colonies, but due to lack of supplies and water, many people died of illness and starvation.
Pocahontas could not bear to see them dead, so he secretly brought them corn.
At that time, she was only about 11 years old, very curious about some new things such as glass beads of white people, and when she got white people's gadgets, she also brought corn and other food to Europeans, and in the process of communication, she slowly learned a few English words, and since then she has acted as a messenger between the British and the father.
But her father, the king, was very wary of the Europeans, did not want them to seize their homes, and kept expelling the Europeans.
Pocahontas not only provided food to keep the remaining British alive, but also carried his father to inform the British.
But what the colonists want is land wealth, where will they stop and only be satisfied with peace?
The 11-year-old girl doesn't understand this.
In order to make the old King of Powatan obey, the British kidnapped Pocahontas, brainwashed her, taught her English and religion, and eventually baptized her, making her the first Indian in history to convert to Christianity.
Due to the abduction of Pocahontas, the old Powhatatán could not do anything with the British, allowing the still unstable colony to grow.
The British instigated a tobacco-growing Briton to marry Pocahontas and have a son.
A year later, the Governor brought his family back to England to showcase the fruits of the New World colonization in order to attract more immigrants. The alien Indian princess caused a stir in London's social scene.
But the Indians lacked antibodies to the European germs, and it wasn't long before they arrived in Europe that the princess fell ill and died.
She was 21 years old when she died.
In addition to massacres, the most important reason for the mass death of Indians was that Europeans brought deadly germs, and Indians who had long survived in the Americas did not have antibodies to deal with these diseases.
After the mass death of the Indians, the Europeans lacked slaves to develop the land, which gave birth to the black slave trade. Hawkins, the pirate, captured people from Africa and trafficked them to the Americas, a trade that lasted for hundreds of years.
Disney borrowed from Bulgar Condy to glorify a history of deception and plunder into a love story in the problem of interracial communication.
After its release in the United States, "Wind in the Wind" was quite successful and popular around the world.
But "Wind in the Wind" was strongly resisted by the Indians.
In the 1990s, after the animation was released, the Indian tribal leader Mad Maroy protested strongly, accusing Disney of making her a hero in American history in order to distort and fabricate history to meet the tastes of the audience.
But Roy did not target Pocahontas as a tragedy herself, and many Indians believed that she was simply a sinner of the nation.
"Strange In the Wind" is still Disney's masterpiece, which is watched every year, but this princess as a victim of history is rarely known.
This is the difference between the other-dimensional world and the real world.
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