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  Before and After Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors
By Helen C. Rountree and E. Randolph Turner III
Price: $24.95
"Surveys a thousand years of Powhatan history, literally from the ground up. . . . The result is as detailed and complete a picture of a people and their culture as one is likely to encounter." —Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Certificate of Commendation, American Association for State and Local History, 2003
Addressed to specialists and nonspecialists alike, Before and After Jamestown introduces the Powhatan—the Native Americans of Virginia's coastal plains, who played an integral part in the life of the Jamestown and Williamsburg settlements—in scenes that span 1,100 years, from just before their earliest contact with non-Indians to the present day. Synthesizing a wealth of documentary and archaeological data, the authors have produced a book at once thoroughly grounded in scholarship and accessible to the general reader. They have also extended the historical account through the native people's long-term adaptation to European immigrants and into the present and their continuing efforts to gain greater recognition as Indians.
Illustrated with more than 100 photographs, maps, and drawings, the book also includes an entire chapter, from the Powhatan perspective, on the original English fort at Jamestown. The authors provide suggestions for additional reading for both children and adults as well as a list of Indian-related sites to visit in Virginia.
Helen C. Rountree is professor emerita at Old Dominion University. E. Randolph Turner III is director of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Portsmouth Regional Office.
272 pages, softcover, ISBN 0813028175, University Press of Florida, 2002
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Reviewed in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Vol. 110, no. 3)
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