Book Description
Examines the history, culture, and changing fortunes of the Powhatan Indians.
Author : Christian F. Feest
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Examines the history, culture, and changing fortunes of the Powhatan Indians.
Author : Danielle Smith-Llera
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2016-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1515702391
"Explains Powhatan history and highlights Powhatan life in modern society"--
Author : Frank Gouldsmith Speck
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : Helen C. Rountree
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806128498
In this history, Helen C. Roundtree traces events that shaped the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, from their first encounter with English colonists, in 1607, to their present-day way of life and relationship to the state of Virginia and the federal government. Roundtree’s examination of those four hundred years misses not a beat in the pulse of Powhatan life. Combining meticulous scholarship and sensitivity, the author explores the diversity always found among Powhatan people, and those people’s relationships with the English, the government of the fledgling United States, the Union and the Confederacy, the U.S. Census Bureau, white supremacists, the U.S. Selective Service, and the civil rights movement.
Author : Catherine Iannone
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780791024966
Discusses the life of Pocahontas and her role as peacekeeper between the Powhatan tribes and the settlers of Jamestown.
Author :
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555918670
The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people.
Author : Gregory A. Waselkov
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803298613
Considered to be one of the all-time classic studies of southeastern Native peoples, Powhatan's Mantle proves more topical, comprehensive, and insightful than ever before in this revised edition for twenty-first century scholars and students.
Author : Suzanne Williams
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781403441744
Describes the history, social life and customs, and present status of the Powhatan Indians.
Author : Frederic W. Gleach
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803270916
Frederic W. Gleach offers the most balanced and complete accounting of the early years of the Jamestown colony to date. When English colonists established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607, they confronted a powerful and growing Native chiefdom consisting of over thirty tribes under one paramount chief, Powhatan. For the next half-century, a portion of the Middle Atlantic coastal plain became a charged and often violent meeting ground between two very different worlds.
Author : Helen C. Rountree
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2006-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0813933404
Pocahontas may be the most famous Native American who ever lived, but during the settlement of Jamestown, and for two centuries afterward, the great chiefs Powhatan and Opechancanough were the subjects of considerably more interest and historical documentation than the young woman. It was Opechancanough who captured the foreign captain "Chawnzmit"—John Smith. Smith gave Opechancanough a compass, described to him a spherical earth that revolved around the sun, and wondered if his captor was a cannibal. Opechancanough, who was no cannibal and knew the world was flat, presented Smith to his elder brother, the paramount chief Powhatan. The chief, who took the name of his tribe as his throne name (his personal name was Wahunsenacawh), negotiated with Smith over a lavish feast and opened the town to him, leading Smith to meet, among others, Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas. Thinking he had made an ally, the chief finally released Smith. Within a few decades, and against their will, his people would be subjects of the British Crown. Despite their roles as senior politicians in these watershed events, no biography of either Powhatan or Opechancanough exists. And while there are other "biographies" of Pocahontas, they have for the most part elaborated on her legend more than they have addressed the known facts of her remarkable life. As the 400th anniversary of Jamestown’s founding approaches, nationally renowned scholar of Native Americans, Helen Rountree, provides in a single book the definitive biographies of these three important figures. In their lives we see the whole arc of Indian experience with the English settlers – from the wary initial encounters presided over by Powhatan, to the uneasy diplomacy characterized by the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, to the warfare and eventual loss of native sovereignty that came during Opechancanough’s reign. Writing from an ethnohistorical perspective that looks as much to anthropology as the written records, Rountree draws a rich portrait of Powhatan life in which the land and the seasons governed life and the English were seen not as heroes but as Tassantassas (strangers), as invaders, even as squatters. The Powhatans were a nonliterate people, so we have had to rely until now on the white settlers for our conceptions of the Jamestown experiment. This important book at last reconstructs the other side of the story.