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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 subjects 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 "biographies" 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, nationally renowned scholar of Native Americans, Helen Rountree, provides in a single book the definitive biographies of these three important figures. In their lives we see the whole arc of Indian experience with the English settlers – from the wary initial encounters presided over by Powhatan, to the uneasy diplomacy 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.

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• Title : Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown


• Language : English


• ISBN-10 : 813925967

 

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Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives
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.
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Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives
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.
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives
Helen C. Rountree wrote this book for a popular audience, to provide biographies of the paramount chief, Powhatan, and of his brother and successor, Opechancanough, and to put the life of the better known Pocahontas in perspective.
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Pocahontas is regarded as the most famous Native American who ever lived, hailed from the native tribes. But as documented by the historians, during the process of settlement of Jamestown and for two subsequent centuries, the great Tribal Chiefs, Powhatan and Opechancanough took the front seats. Pocahontas demanded lots of attention for different reasons.
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Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown By Helen C. Rountree University of Virginia Press, 2005 292 pp. Cloth $29.95 Reviewed by Michael D. Green, professor of history and American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Helen Rountree knows more than anyone else about the Native Americans of eastern Virginia, and if anyone can write a ...
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Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown * Helen C. Rountree * Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005 * xii, 292 pp. * $29.95
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