Download or read book Powhatan Indians written by Suzanne Williams and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history, social life and customs, and present status of the Powhatan Indians.
Download or read book Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma written by Camilla Townsend and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Pocahontas (died 1617), a Powhatan Indian woman married to Englishman John Rolfe (1585-1622). Her life is shown as a road map of native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of odds and in the hope of independance.
Download or read book Chapters on the Ethnology of the Powhatan Tribes of Virginia written by Frank Gouldsmith Speck and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pocahontas written by Catherine Iannone and published by Chelsea House Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the life of Pocahontas and her role as peacekeeper between the Powhatan tribes and the settlers of Jamestown.
Download or read book The Powhatan Landscape written by Martin D. Gallivan and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Anthropological Society James Mooney Award As Native American history is primarily studied through the lens of European contact, the story of Virginia's Powhatans has traditionally focused on the English arrival in the Chesapeake. This has left a deeper indigenous history largely unexplored--a longer narrative beginning with the Algonquians' construction of places, communities, and the connections in between. The Powhatan Landscape breaks new ground by tracing Native placemaking in the Chesapeake from the Algonquian arrival to the Powhatan's clashes with the English. Martin Gallivan details how Virginia Algonquians constructed riverine communities alongside fishing grounds and collective burials and later within horticultural towns. Ceremonial spaces, including earthwork enclosures within the center place of Werowocomoco, gathered people for centuries prior to 1607. Even after the violent ruptures of the colonial era, Native people returned to riverine towns for pilgrimages commemorating the enduring power of place. For today's American Indian communities in the Chesapeake, this reexamination of landscape and history represents a powerful basis from which to contest narratives and policies that have previously denied their existence. A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson
Download or read book The Powhatan Indians of Virginia written by Helen C. Rountree and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the aspects of Powhatan life that Helen Rountree describes in vivid detail are hunting and agriculture, territorial claims, warfare and treatment of prisoners, physical appearance and dress, construction of houses and towns, education of youths, initiation rites, family and social structure and customs, the nature of rulers, medicine, religion, and even village games, music, and dance. Rountree’s is the first book-length treatment of this fascinating culture, which included one of the most complex political organizations in native North American and which figured prominently in early American history.
Download or read book Pocahontas Powhatan Opechancanough written by Helen C. Rountree and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006-07-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Powhatan written by Danielle Smith-Llera and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explains Powhatan history and highlights Powhatan life in modern society"--
Download or read book Pocahontas s People written by Helen C. Rountree and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Powhatan Tribes written by Christian F. Feest and published by Chelsea House Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history, culture, and changing fortunes of the Powhatan Indians.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Powhatan Empire written by James Axtell and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how the English vied with the Powhatan Indians to dominate the lands and resources in Tidewater Virginia. The author depicts the native inhabitants and the newcomers as equal actors in a drama whose outcome was not a foregone conclusion.
Download or read book Powhatan s World and Colonial Virginia written by Frederic W. Gleach and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Powhatan written by and published by Arx Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the largest vocabulary ever collected of Powhatan -- approximately 1,000 entries compiled by William Strachey around 1612. This edition is based on Major's 1849 printing of the British Museum manuscript, with variant forms and extra words cited from the Bodleian manuscript. Two supplementary word-lists of Virginia Algonquian are also included: nine words from an anonymous relation of 1607 attributed to Gabriel Archer, and 29 words from Robert Beverley's 1705 History and Present State of Virginia. This edition also features an introduction by Powhatan scholar Frederic Gleach.
Download or read book Powhatan s Mantle written by Gregory A. Waselkov and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Powhatan Indians of Virginia written by Helen C. Roundtree and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the aspects of Powhatan life that Helen Rountree describes in vivid detail are hunting and agriculture, territorial claims, warfare and treatment of prisoners, physical appearance and dress, construction of houses and towns, education of youths, initiation rites, family and social structure and customs, the nature of rulers, medicine, religion, and even village games, music, and dance. Rountree’s is the first book-length treatment of this fascinating culture, which included one of the most complex political organizations in native North American and which figured prominently in early American history.
Download or read book Before and After Jamestown written by Helen C. Rountree and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Powhatan People written by Kim Covert and published by Capstone. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Powhatan Native Americans, covering their daily activities, customs, family life, religion, government, and history. Includes information on Pocahontas.
