Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
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Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
Helen C. Rountree
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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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5 out of 5 stars The True Story Of Pocahontas, John Smith and Chief Powhatan.......2005-11-22

Everyone is familiar with the story of Pocahontas and British explorer/adventurer John Smith. They are romantic stories fed to us by the likes of Disney (10 yrs ago in the 1995 film) and countless romanticized versions in historical fiction novels. This "documentary" book exposes the truth about what really happened in the span of time that John Smith, Jon Rolfe and the Virginia Company founded Jamestown and dealt with the Indian tribes headed by Chief Powhatan and his brother Openchancanough. Since Thanksgiving is fast approaching, this makes a fine book to read if you are interested in the earliest British colonial period of the 1600's, when the pilgrims fist arrived in the Eastern coast of the United States. This period has been romanticized by movies and novels, evoking a thrilling time of danger, intrigue and romance, when Indians and colonists sparred and sometimes made peace, even made love. Princess Pocahontas was the daughter of Chief Powhatan. She was only fifteen or so when she first met Jon Smith and a romance was highly unlikely, even if perhaps the girl felt an attraction to the supposedly attractive adventurer. John Smith had traveled across the globe to foreign lands as a British explorer and was in his day a bad boy. That he may have gotten into trouble with Chief Powhatan and his people is probably true. Pocahontas was a diplomat, a healer/medicine woman and regarded as a peacemaker. Even if she didn't do a dramatic a thing as offer herself up as sacrifice to save John Smith's life, she did for a time lessen tension between the natives and the colonists. She married Jon Rolfe, a British nobleman, was converted to Christianity, learned to read and speak English. She journeyed across the Atlantic, leaving behind her old life in the tribe and became a popular figure in London society. She became a lady. Most people forget about this phase in her life and it must have been a very interesting story within itself. Did she miss her old life ? Was she as respected in London or did she experience a form of racism because she was not a white English lady ? Powhatan's life is documented well in this book. He was a very influential man in his time and he, too, was able to negotiate with the English. Jamestown brought these people together. They hoped that Jamestown would be an independent, Utopian society where English and natives could live and prosper. Unfortunately, Jamestown succumbed to disease and death. The dream died and conflict between natives and colonists resumed. If you're a big history buff, this book is for you.

4 out of 5 stars Pieces of the Real Jamestown and its Major Players.......2005-08-08

The major theme of POCAHONTAS POWHATAN OPECHANCANOUGH: THREE INDIAN LIVES CHANGED BY JAMESTOWN revolves around truth. For each story that has been told about Virginia's Jamestown settlement or Pocahontas in general, its has centered on the Captain John Smith and Pocahontas legend and myth that has been overly romanticized in novels and in movies. At this time, no scholar has made the attempt to intertwine the Indian voice within the English story of Jamestown. However, Helen Rountree attempts to provide the Native American voice, but from letters and accounts by English colonists and foreigners. It is unfortunate that the Indians did not record their accounts of the arrival of these new world settlers, or as Rountree suggests, invaders. Nonetheless, Rountree places the three major participants' semi-biographical accounts at the forefront of this study in order to incorporate their contribution to the settlement as well as the invasion of white colonists to the Indian landscape.

Rountree examines these three major actors and their way of life from anthropological perspective. Indeed, this is an historical narrative that deals with ethnohistory, but one that is " about one side only" (p. 6). Historians study their subject matters in order to get to the bottom of how an event occurred and its end result - think in terms of the past while writing in the present. Rountree takes the same approach, and studied the Powhatan side with why and how they acted the way they did. Rountree is critical and frank about past accounts of the Jamestown story as told by historian, William Strachey, HISTORIE OF TRAVELL INTO VIRGINIA BRITANIA and his plagiarized version of John Smith's narrative, GENERALL HISTORIE, which takes an English perspective that downplays the Indian presence. Rountree clarifies misconceptions that have been told within past narratives.

Chronologically, the book covers the period from 1607 to 1644. With these periods, one has a time frame to work with. Rountree provides an in depth analysis of the inception and deterioration of relations between natives and colonists of the Virginia Company's settlement in Jamestown and the wars that concurred in 1622 and 1644. The book shows how life was like before the colonists, and the significance of Powhatan daily rituals. Rountree's expertise in so-called "digging deep" to the root of origins from an anthropological point of view allows the reader to understand how life was simple and structured for the Powhatans. Rountree suggests that life only later became complicated when the Indians had to provide and teach the colonists how to survive. In the process, both Indians and colonists discovered that their lifestyles and environments were different than what they had been accustomed to.

For the sake of understanding, POCAHONTAS POWHATAN OPECHANCANOUGH will allow readers of history to see the bigger picture of the Jamestown story that took place three centuries ago. Although this history has already passed, its legacy and myths continues to engage readers. Helen Rountree should be commended for taken the task to reveal the real Pocahontas as human as possible and not as a Disney cutout, and to emphasize the predominant role of chief leader, Powhatan, and his successor or "brother", Opechancanough as essential actors in American history.








4 out of 5 stars Review.......2005-08-03

Most interesting. A story of the founding of Jamestown from the Indian point of view. It is a family tradition that we are descended from Powhatan, and the story meant a great deal to me.
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    Camilla Townsend
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    Author: Camilla Townsend
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                  The tyranny of words. (special education student's need to be part of the literate world) (column): An article from: Exceptional Children
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                    The tyranny of words. (special education student's need to be part of the literate world) (column): An article from: Exceptional Children
                    Jeptha V. Greer
                    Manufacturer: Council for Exceptional Children
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Digital

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                    ASIN: B00092BDB4
                    Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                    This digital document is an article from Exceptional Children, published by Council for Exceptional Children on May 1, 1991. The length of the article is 1113 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                    Title: The tyranny of words. (special education student's need to be part of the literate world) (column)
                    Author: Jeptha V. Greer
                    Publication: Exceptional Children (Refereed)
                    Date: May 1, 1991
                    Publisher: Council for Exceptional Children
                    Volume: v57 Issue: n6 Page: p486(2)

                    Article Type: column

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                    Hunger for the Printed Word: Books and Libraries in the Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-Occupied Europe
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                    • FASCINATING - illuminates a (mostly) unknown phenomenon
                    Hunger for the Printed Word: Books and Libraries in the Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-Occupied Europe
                    David Shavit
                    Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Library Binding

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                    ASIN: 0786402032

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                    In the years leading up to World War II, libraries played an increasingly significant role in the culture lives of East European Jews. Amid the squalor, books provided many with an opportunity to escape for a while and offered renewed hope and willpower. Maintaining libraries was also an act of resistance, helping the people keep a hold on their humanity and a cultural link with the past. This work details the story of libraries in five of the largest ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe: Ldz and Warsaw in Poland, Kovno and Vilna in Lithuania, and Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia.

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                    5 out of 5 stars FASCINATING - illuminates a (mostly) unknown phenomenon.......1997-10-20

                    There is no way that a description of European Jewish life in the Holocaust can be other than lacerating. That said this small exploration of the resistance of the mind and escape from the physical prison which trapped the Jewish community by their holding tenaciously to the cultural attachment to the written word is remarkable. People, from little children to the elderly, despite the utter horror of their surroundings, made use of books. The image of libraries - still with an overdue system intact - of libraries to which one had to contribute a book to become a borrower - and of the desperate Warsaw fighters hidden behind a case of books are simply a few of the remarkable images that fill this work. If an escape or resistance of the spirit were possible surely this was it; what did those doomed people read to escape from or place a context to their unimaginably horrible experience. It is hard not to take some pleasure in the idea that there were such books - Shavit tells quite precisely what they were and who read them - but sadly notes books were hidden for readers who never returned, the Yiddish literature that has survived in largest quatities was, ironically, that confiscated by the Nazis, and in the end a few of the thumbed, tattered books remained but finally there were no more readers.
                    World of Words With Flemming Cd, 6th Ed + Hm Reading Cd-rom, 5th Ed + Webster's II Pocket Dictionary
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                      World of Words With Flemming Cd, 6th Ed + Hm Reading Cd-rom, 5th Ed + Webster's II Pocket Dictionary
                      Margaret Richek
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                      ASIN: 0618596682

                      The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park
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                        The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park
                        Daniel S. Pierce
                        Manufacturer: University of Tennessee Press
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                        Binding: Hardcover

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                        The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains and The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park.: An article from: Journal of Southern History
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                          The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains and The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park.: An article from: Journal of Southern History
                          Kathleen A. Brosnan
                          Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association
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                          Binding: Digital

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                          ASIN: B0008FBNZ8
                          Release Date: 2005-07-30

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                          This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on May 1, 2002. The length of the article is 895 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                          Title: The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains and The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park.
                          Author: Kathleen A. Brosnan
                          Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
                          Date: May 1, 2002
                          Publisher: Southern Historical Association
                          Volume: 68 Issue: 2 Page: 515(3)

                          Article Type: Book Review

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