Pocahontas Powhatan Opechancanough
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Pocahontas Powhatan Opechancanough
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Author : Helen C. Rountree
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2006-07-05
Pocahontas Powhatan Opechancanough written by Helen C. Rountree and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-05 with History categories.
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.
Pocahontas S People
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Author : Helen C. Rountree
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1990
Pocahontas S People written by Helen C. Rountree and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
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.
Pocahontas
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Author : Anne Holler
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea House
Release Date : 1993
Pocahontas written by Anne Holler and has been published by Chelsea House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Discusses the life of Pocahontas and her role as peacemaker between the Powhatan tribes and the settlers of Jamestown.
Pocahontas
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Author : Lisa Sita
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2004-08-15
Pocahontas written by Lisa Sita and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Traces the life of Pocahontas and looks at the role she played in the realtionship between the Powhatan Indians and the English settlers.
The Life And Adventures Of Captain John Smith
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Author : W. C. Armstrong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1858
The Life And Adventures Of Captain John Smith written by W. C. Armstrong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1858 with New England categories.
The Life And Adventures Of Captain John Smith
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Author : W. C. Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-09-03
The Life And Adventures Of Captain John Smith written by W. C. Armstrong and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-03 with categories.
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A Brave And Cunning Prince
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Author : James Horn
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-11-16
A Brave And Cunning Prince written by James Horn and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The extraordinary story of the Powhatan chief who waged a lifelong struggle to drive European settlers from his homeland In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake Bay kidnapped an Indian child and took him back to Spain and subsequently to Mexico. The boy converted to Catholicism and after nearly a decade was able to return to his land with a group of Jesuits to establish a mission. Shortly after arriving, he organized a war party that killed them. In the years that followed, Opechancanough (as the English called him), helped establish the most powerful chiefdom in the mid-Atlantic region. When English settlers founded Virginia in 1607, he fought tirelessly to drive them away, leading to a series of wars that spanned the next forty years—the first Anglo-Indian wars in America— and came close to destroying the colony. A Brave and Cunning Prince is the first book to chronicle the life of this remarkable chief, exploring his early experiences of European society and his long struggle to save his people from conquest.
Pocahontas And The Powhatan Dilemma
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Author : Camilla Townsend
language : en
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Release Date : 2005-09-07
Pocahontas And The Powhatan Dilemma written by Camilla Townsend and has been published by Hill and Wang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves. Neither naïve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is here shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name. Townsend's Pocahontas emerges--as a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in London--for the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.
The True Story Of Pocahontas
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Release Date : 2016-11-30
The True Story Of Pocahontas written by and has been published by Fulcrum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people.
Pocahontas And The English Boys
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Author : Karen Ordahl Kupperman
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2021-01-19
Pocahontas And The English Boys written by Karen Ordahl Kupperman and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with History categories.
The captivating story of four young people—English and Powhatan—who lived their lives between cultures In Pocahontas and the English Boys, the esteemed historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia’s founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationships—and became essential for the colony’s survival. Their story gives us unprecedented access to both sides of early Virginia. Here for the first time outside scholarly texts is an accurate portrayal of Pocahontas, who, from the age of ten, acted as emissary for her father, who ruled over the local tribes, alongside the never-before-told intertwined stories of Thomas Savage, Henry Spelman, and Robert Poole, young English boys who were forced to live with powerful Indian leaders to act as intermediaries. Pocahontas and the English Boys is a riveting seventeenth-century story of intrigue and danger, knowledge and power, and four youths who lived out their lives between cultures. As Pocahontas, Thomas, Henry, and Robert collaborated and conspired in carrying messages and trying to smooth out difficulties, they never knew when they might be caught in the firing line of developing hostilities. While their knowledge and role in controlling communication gave them status and a degree of power, their relationships with both sides meant that no one trusted them completely. Written by an expert in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Atlantic history, Pocahontas and the English Boys unearths gems from the archives—Henry Spelman’s memoir, travel accounts, letters, and official reports and records of meetings of the governor and council in Virginia—and draws on recent archaeology to share the stories of the young people who were key influencers of their day and who are now set to transform our understanding of early Virginia.