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Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown by Helen C. Rountree

5.0

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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.