Psychology of Indigenous People: A Comparative Study through Fairy Tales Moana & Pocahontas
Author : Kowsalya RM
Abstract :
Moana & Pocahontas-the famous fairy tales that deals with the tribal community where the princess takes care of it by closing the door of their own feelings. The researcher compares these two fairy tales mainly discussing the psyche of the indigenous people. Moana, the fairy tale written by Jared Bush, deals with the protagonist act of saving her people by returning the relic to Te Fiti. The people in this fairy tale are from Polynesian village. It is an original plot by mixing the myths of Polynesia. The next fairy tale Pocahontas was written by Carl Binder, Susannah Grant, and Philip Lazebnik. This tale deals with Powhatan tribe where the princess Pocahontas gets attracted to a white sailor but leaves him for the sake of her tribe. This research attempt to apply some magic of the fairy tales by defining the psychology of the indigenous people in the tale mentioned which has happened originally (real /reel life). The study is based on the following hypothesis: Usually indigenous people gets suppressed and oppressed by the colonizers. Well, here the protagonists in both the fairy tales fight against the oppression to save their people. The psychological wounds still torment the psyche of the majority of the indigenous people, and it prevents them from having a proactive psyche. The present study attempts to analyse & explore the effectiveness of Moana & Pocahontas in studying other indigenous communities with similar psychological impact in order to effectuate healing and reconstruct the indigenous psyche. The detailed study undertaken in this research brings out the cultural, spiritual, and psychological uniformity among with the Powhatan and Polynesian tribal community. This study identifies that both the tribal community are not broken people, but they are wounded people. Therefore, the indigenous people all around the world can be healed by reconstructing the wounded psyche.
Keywords :
Indigenous people, psychology, fairy tales
