Before and After Jamestown

The Powhatans and Their Predecessors

Helen C Rountree author Jerald T Milanich author ERandolph Turner author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University Press of Florida

Published:30th Jun '02

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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. 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 at Jamestown. The authors provide suggestions for additional reading for both children and adults as well as a list of Indian-related sites to visit in Virginia.

It is not surprising that there is much we did not know about the early history of the tribe. It is astonishing that this volume contains so much we did not know about the fate of the tribe after English colonization.-Virginia Quarterly Review; ""An important synthesis of archaeological, anthropological, and historical material.""--Journal of Southern History; ""Surveys a thousand years of Powhatan history, literally from the ground up.... The result is as detailed and complete a picture of a people and their culture as one is likely to encounter.""--Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

ISBN: 9780813028170

Dimensions: 211mm x 145mm x 16mm

Weight: 400g

272 pages