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Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown (review)

Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown (review) 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 history of the encounter between them and the English at Jamestown from their point of view, it is she. A recently retired member of the faculty of Old Dominion University at Norfolk, Virginia, Rountree has spent most of her life in Powhatan country, researching the history and publishing many books and articles, associating with the descendants of Powhatan people, and teaching the history of Powhatan's chiefdom to thousands of students. What makes her special, though, is her talent as an ethnohistorian. Rountree was trained as a cultural anthropologist. Cultural anthropologists do research for the books they write by living among, interviewing, and observing the daily lives of the people they are studying. Rountree conducted such field research in the Native American communities of eastern Virginia, but the only places where she could study their forebears were http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown (review)

Southern Cultures , Volume 12 (2) – Oct 5, 2006

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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 history of the encounter between them and the English at Jamestown from their point of view, it is she. A recently retired member of the faculty of Old Dominion University at Norfolk, Virginia, Rountree has spent most of her life in Powhatan country, researching the history and publishing many books and articles, associating with the descendants of Powhatan people, and teaching the history of Powhatan's chiefdom to thousands of students. What makes her special, though, is her talent as an ethnohistorian. Rountree was trained as a cultural anthropologist. Cultural anthropologists do research for the books they write by living among, interviewing, and observing the daily lives of the people they are studying. Rountree conducted such field research in the Native American communities of eastern Virginia, but the only places where she could study their forebears were

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Published: Oct 5, 2006

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