Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries

by Helen C. Rountree

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806128498
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	01/28/1996
Series:	Civilization of the American Indian Series , #196
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	246,036
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.96(d)

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fieldwork for two decades have been among North American Indians in both Virginia and Nevada; she has worked both with historical documents and with living Indians and has written numerous journal articles.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.