Before and after Jamestown : Virginia's Powhatans and their predecessors / Helen C. Rountree and E. Randolph Turner III ; foreword by Jerald T. Milanich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rountree, Helen C., 1944-

Contributor:

Turner, E. Randolph (Edwin Randolph)

Series:

Native peoples, cultures, and places of the southeastern United States

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Powhatan Indians--History.

Powhatan Indians.

Powhatan Indians--Government relations.

Powhatan Indians--Social life and customs.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2002]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-250) and index.

ISBN:

0813024765

OCLC:

47989880