Before and After Jamestown: The Powhatans and Algonquins of Virginia
Before and After Jamestown: The Powhatans and Algonquins of Virginia By Helen C. Rountree
2002 | 259 Pages | ISBN: 0813024765 | PDF | 8 MB
2002 | 259 Pages | ISBN: 0813024765 | PDF | 8 MB
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.