Princess Pocahontas

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Princess Pocahontas is a burlesque by an anonymous author.

The story of Pocahontas

Pocahontas was her nickname, which depending on who you ask means “playful one" or “ill-behaved child.” Pocahontas was the favorite daughter of Powhatan, the formidable ruler of the more than 30 Algonquian-speaking tribes in and around the area that the early English settlers would claim as Jamestown, Virginia.

1875: Performed on 23 June and billed as a "new South African burlesque" (no author given), in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town by the Disney Roebuck company, with The Daughter of the Regiment (Fitzball) and The Day After the Wedding (Kemble). The evening as benefit for Miss Montague.