Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries (Civilization of the American Indian Series) - Hardcover

Rountree, Helen C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806122803 ISBN 13: 9780806122809

Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Traces the history of the Powhatan Indians since their first contact with the English in 1607 to the present, and examines the evolution of their social, economic, political, and ritual life

About this title

About the Author:

Helen C. Rountree is an ethnohistorian with degrees from the College of William and Mary, the University of Utah, and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her research and fieldwork for two decades have been among North American Indians in both Virginia and Nevada; she has worked both with historical documents and with living Indians and has written numerous journal articles. She is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Old Dominion University.

From Library Journal:

This meticulously documented volume by an ethnohistorian and anthropologist soundly demonstrates that "the 'vanishing Indian' is indeed a myth." The author traces the story of the Native Americans in Powhatan's dominion from their first contact with the English at Jamestown in 1607 through their tribal activities in the late 20th century. Refusing to vanish, Virginia groups retained a definably Indian character despite intense efforts by whites to deny them their heritage. There is increasing interest in surviving Eastern Indian groups; this study, complemented by the author's The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture (Oklahoma, 1989), should serve as a model for those to follow.
- Mary B. Davis, Huntington Free Lib., Bronx, New York
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0806122803
• ISBN 13: 9780806122809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416