Before and After Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors (Native Peoples, Cultures, and Places of the Southeastern United States) - Hardcover

Rountree, Helen C.; TURNER III, E. RANDOLPH

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813024765 ISBN 13: 9780813024769

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2002

Synopsis

The story of America's first permanent English settlement as told through its relationship with Virginia’s native peoples. Certificate of Commendation, American Association for State and Local History, 2003 Addressed to specialists and nonspecialists alike, Before and After Jamestown introduces the Powhatans--the Native Americans of Virginia's coastal plains, who played an integral part in the life of the Williamsburg and Jamestown settlements--in scenes that span 1,100 years, from just before their earliest contact with non-Indians to the present day. Synthesizing a wealth of documentary and archaeological data, the authors have produced a book at once thoroughly grounded in scholarship and accessible to the general reader. They have also extended the historical account through the native people's long-term adaptation to European immigrants and into the immediate present and their continuing efforts to gain greater recognition as Indians.Illustrated with more than 100 photographs, maps, and drawings, the book also includes an entire chapter, from the Powhatan perspective, on the original English fort at Jamestown. The authors provide suggestions for additional reading for both children and adults as well as a list of Indian-related sites to visit in Virginia. 

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Book Description:

The story of America's first permanent English settlement as told through its relationship with Virginia’s native peoples. "It is not surprising that there is much we did not know about the early history of the tribe. It is astonishing that this volume contains so much we did not know about the fate of the tribe after English colonization."--Virginia Quarterly Review "An important synthesis of archaeological, anthropological, and historical material."--Journal of Southern History "Surveys a thousand years of Powhatan history, literally from the ground up. . . . The result is as detailed and complete a picture of a people and their culture as one is likely to encounter."--Virginia Magazine of History and Biography "A powerful and nuanced account of Powhatan culture and history."--Martin Gallivan, College of William and Mary Certificate of Commendation, American Association for State and Local History, 2003 Addressed to specialists and nonspecialists alike, Before and After Jamestown introduces the Powhatans--the Native Americans of Virginia's coastal plains, who played an integral part in the life of the Williamsburg and Jamestown settlements--in scenes that span 1,100 years, from just before their earliest contact with non-Indians to the present day. Synthesizing a wealth of documentary and archaeological data, the authors have produced a book at once thoroughly grounded in scholarship and accessible to the general reader. They have also extended the historical account through the native people's long-term adaptation to European immigrants and into the immediate present and their continuing efforts to gain greater recognition as Indians.Illustrated with more than 100 photographs, maps, and drawings, the book also includes an entire chapter, from the Powhatan perspective, on the original English fort at Jamestown. The authors provide suggestions for additional reading for both children and adults as well as a list of Indian-related sites to visit in Virginia. 

About the Author:

Helen C. Rountree is professor emerita at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. E. Randolph Turner III is director of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Portsmouth Regional Office.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0813024765
• ISBN 13: 9780813024769
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272