Before and After Jamestown - Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors

"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 williams-burg 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 atonce 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. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs, maps, and drawings, the book also includes an entire chapter, from the Powhatan perspective, on the original English fort ar Jamestown.

About the author

Helen C. Rountree is professor emerita at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. E. Randolph Turner III is director of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Portsmouth Regional Office.

Summary

Addressed to specialists and nonspecialists alike, this is an introduction to 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 1100 years.

Product details

• Authors: Jerald T. Milanich, Helen C Rountree, Helen C. Rountree, E Randolph Turner, E. Randolph Turner, E.Randolph Turner
• Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2002
• EAN: 9780813028170
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-2817-0
• No. of pages: 274
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 226 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 410 g
• Series: Native Peoples, Cultures, and; Native Peoples, Cultures and Places of the South-eastern United States S.; Native Peoples, Cultures and Places of the South-eastern United States; Native Peoples, Cultures, and; Native Peoples, Cultures and Places of the South-eastern United States
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous