Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown.(Book review)

From: Southern Cultures | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: Green, Michael D. | Copyright information

Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown By Helen C. Rountree University of Virginia Press, 2005 292 pp. Cloth $29.95

Helen Rountree knows more than anyone else about the Native Americans of eastern Virginia, and if anyone can write a history of the encounter between them and the English at Jamestown from their point of view, it is she. A recently retired member of the faculty of Old Dominion University at Norfolk, Virginia, Rountree h...

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