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The Indian Princess; or La Belle Sauvage is a play by James Nelson Barker with music by John Bray based on the Pocahontas story as originally recorded in John Smith’s The Generall Historie of Virginia (1624). The comedy first performed in 1808 at The Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia deals with relations between Native Americans and the first European settlers in America. It was subsequently produced throughout the country.