ISBN: 9780813923239

ID: 3431678

Pocahontas may be the most famous Native American who ever lived, but during the settlement of Jamestown, and for two centuries afterward, the great chiefs Powhatan and Opechancanough were the subjects of considerably more interest and historical documentation than the young woman. It was Opechancanough who captured the foreign captain "Chawnzmit"--John Smith. Smith gave Opechancanough a compass, described to him a spherical earth that revolved around the sun and wondered if his captor was a cannibal. Opechancanough, who was no cannibal and knew the world was flat, presented Smith to his elder brother, the paramount chief Powhatan. The chief, who took the name of his tribe as his throne name (his personal name was Wahunsenacawh), negotiated with Smith over a lavish feast and opened the town to him, leading Smith to meet, among others, Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas. Thinking he had made an ally, the chief finally released Smith. Within a few decades, and against their will, his people would be subject of the British Crown. Despite their roles as senior politicians in these watershed events, no biography of either Powhatan or Opechancanough exists. And while there are other "biographics" of Pocahontas, they have for the most part elaborated on her legend more than they have addressed the known facts of her remarkable life. As the 400th anniversary of Jamestown's founding approaches. Helen Rountree, nationally renowned scholar of Native Americans, provides in a single book the definitive biographies of these three important figures. In their lives we see the whole are of Indian experience with the English settlers--from the wary initial encounters presided over by Powhatan, to the uneasydiplomacy characterized by the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, to the warfare and eventual loss of native sovereignty that came during Opechancanough's reign. Writing from an ethnohistorical perspective that looks as much to anthropology as the written records, Rountree draws a rich portrait of Powhatan life in which the land and the seasons governed life and the English were seen not as heroes but as Tassantassas (strangers), as invaders, even as squatters. The Powhatans were a nonliterate people, so we have had to rely until now on the white settlers for our conceptions of the Jamestown experiment. This important book at last reconstructs the other side of the story. Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown Three Indian Lives Changed by James Rountree, Helen C., University of Virginia Press

ISBN: 0813923239

ID: 5458973

Pocahontas may be the most famous Native American who ever lived, but during the settlement of Jamestown, and for two centuries afterward, the great chiefs Powhatan and Opechancanough were the subjects of considerably more interest and historical documentation than the young woman. It was Opechancanough who captured the foreign captain Chawnzmit -- John Smith. Smith gave Opechancanough a compass, described to him a spherical earth that revolved around the sun, and wondered if his captor was a cannibal. Opechancanough, who was no cannibal and knew the world was flat, presented Smith to his elder brother, the paramount chief Powhatan. The chief, who took the name of his tribe as his throne name (his personal name was Wahunsenacawh), negotiated with Smith over a lavish feast and opened the town to him, leading Smith to meet, among others, Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas. Thinking he had made an ally, the chief finally released Smith. 17th century,18th century,americas,anthropology,biographical,biographies,biographies and history,biography and history,colonial period,cultural Biographies, University of Virginia Press

ISBN: 9780813923239

ID: 9780813923239

Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown Pocahontas-Powhatan-Opechancanough~~Helen-C-Rountree Cultural Studies>Native America Studies>Native America Hardcover, University of Virginia Press

2005, ISBN: 0813923239

ID: 13143978791

[EAN: 9780813923239], Nouveau livre, [SC: 17.86], [PU: University of Virginia Press], Biography & Autobiography|Personal Memoirs, Social Science|Ethnic Studies|Native American Studies

2005, ISBN: 9780813923239

ID: 11966925026

Hardcover, Great customer service. You will be happy!, D'occasion, très bon état, P02, [PU: University of Virginia Press]