Newport, James City and the Powhatans
Author | : Dennis Olding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Jamestown (Va.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dennis Olding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Jamestown (Va.) |
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Author | : Lisa Sita |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2004-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781404226531 |
Traces the life of Pocahontas and looks at the role she played in the realtionship between the Powhatan Indians and the English settlers.
Author | : Camilla Townsend |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2005-09-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1429930772 |
Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves. Neither naïve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is here shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name. Townsend's Pocahontas emerges--as a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in London--for the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.
Author | : David A. Price |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030742670X |
A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with incompetence and infighting; only the leadership of Captain John Smith averted doom for the first permanent English settlement in the New World.The Jamestown colony is one of the great survival stories of American history, and this book brings it fully to life for the first time. Drawing on extensive original documents, David A. Price paints intimate portraits of the major figures from the formidable monarch Chief Powhatan, to the resourceful but unpopular leader John Smith, to the spirited Pocahontas, who twice saved Smith’s life. He also gives a rare balanced view of relations between the settlers and the natives and debunks popular myths about the colony. This is a superb work of history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation.
Author | : Lyon Gardiner Tyler |
Publisher | : Richmond, Va. : Whittet & Shepperson |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Melissa Higgins |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1617837105 |
Presents the history of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, including the role of Captain John Smith, the ups and downs of relations with the Powhatan Indians, and the hardships the settlers endured.
Author | : Timothy E. Morgan |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738524733 |
From the days of the Powhatan Indians to the establishment of Middle Plantation nearly 400 years ago, from its rise to power for a hundred years as the capital of England's largest North American colony to its decline into as many years of obscurity, Williamsburg has been shaped by the forces of history. Beneath the remarkable surface of today's restored colonial city lies an even more fascinating glimpse into the life of a community that has weathered the full sweep of American history.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Consumer price indexes |
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Author | : James Horn |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2021-11-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1541600037 |
The extraordinary story of the Powhatan chief who waged a lifelong struggle to drive European settlers from his homeland In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake Bay kidnapped an Indian child and took him back to Spain and subsequently to Mexico. The boy converted to Catholicism and after nearly a decade was able to return to his land with a group of Jesuits to establish a mission. Shortly after arriving, he organized a war party that killed them. In the years that followed, Opechancanough (as the English called him), helped establish the most powerful chiefdom in the mid-Atlantic region. When English settlers founded Virginia in 1607, he fought tirelessly to drive them away, leading to a series of wars that spanned the next forty years—the first Anglo-Indian wars in America— and came close to destroying the colony. A Brave and Cunning Prince is the first book to chronicle the life of this remarkable chief, exploring his early experiences of European society and his long struggle to save his people from conquest.
Author | : Jeanne Nagle |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2017-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1680486551 |
Many school-aged children are familiar with the story of Pocahontas. Yet most accounts of this Native American icon—gleaned from sources such as fables and animated feature films—are rife with inaccuracies. This book emphasizes the truth behind the embellishments, examining how an Indian princess first befriended early American colonists and then became an influential contributor to their survival and well-being. Readers also get a meaningful glimpse into life in the Jamestown colony, as well as the customs and traditions of Algonquin society.