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Pocahontas’s People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries
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- UPDATED: 6.29.2025
- Indigenous history, history, populations, regional
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date:
1.15.1996
ISBN:
9780806128498
pages:
416
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description:
Roundtree’s examination of those four hundred years misses not a beat in the pulse of Powhatan life. Combining meticulous scholarship and sensitivity, the author explores the diversity always found among Powhatan people, and those people’s relationships with the English, the government of the fledgling United States, the Union and the Confederacy, the U.S. Census Bureau, white supremacists, the U.S. Selective Service, and the civil rights movement.
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Helen C. Rountree. Pocahontas’s People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.
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