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Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
Helen C. Rountree
4.29 AVERAGE
4 reviews for:
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
Helen C. Rountree
4.29 AVERAGE
Great book, I learned a lot! I've never read anything specifically about the Native Americans involved in Jamestown, and it was really interesting to learn about their culture (though also kinda sad since we know the eventual outcome). It's written in a very colloquial style, so it's easy to understand and keeps your interest.
Fantastic insight on the flip side of the coin. How the settlers were perceived by the (true) locals and how hospitality was not reciprocal. A lot of this history is rapidly vanishing as native Americans only carry it through oral storytelling and so it is imperative that we capture and absorb as much of it as possible.
This book was exactly what I hoped it to be, an unlearning of what we know about the US and how much we still don't know about America. Highly recommended.
This book was exactly what I hoped it to be, an unlearning of what we know about the US and how much we still don't know about America. Highly recommended.
I enjoyed reading this book on the Powhatan Indians of Virginia as they struggled to deal with the English invaders. Written from an Indian view point it shows the invasion of their homeland by foreigners through their lens. Turning the well known story on it's head, the English are the "bad guys" and the Indians bravely confront the men who were trying to oust them from their land.
Rountree’s ethnohistoric history is a lively account of the impact of the English colony at Jamestown from the point of view of the Real People, the Powhatans who had inhabited the shore of what the unwashed new arrivals called Virginia for the previous fourteen centuries. Since they did not have a written language she constructs her account on the documents of the European squatters and her own anthropological knowledge of the native people. As the title indicates, the narrative revolves around two powerful political leaders and the daughter of one of them, who decided to throw her lot in with the undocumented immigrants.