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

From: Journal of Southern History | Date: August 1, 2007| Author: Townsend, Camilla | Copyright information

Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown. By Helen Rountree. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 292. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-2596-7; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-8139-2323-9.)

Helen Rountree has presented the reading world--both scholarly and nonscholarly--with a refreshing new treatment of an old subject. She writes about the early years of the Jamestown colony--this time, from the Indians' poin...

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