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Author Rountree, Helen C., 1944-

Title Pocahontas Powhatan Opechancanough : three Indian lives changed by Jamestown / Helen C. Rountree.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Moore Stacks  E99.P85 R665 2005    Available  ---
Description xii, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Setting the scene -- The VIP lifestyle -- Introducing the chiefly family -- Expanding his dominions -- Watching from a distance -- Meeting a captive Englishman -- The alliance's creaky beginning -- Allies who did not behave like allies -- The breakdown of the alliance -- Contain them, then let them starve -- Return with a vengeance -- Hostage situation, with an unusual denouement -- Interview with a wily old man -- Pocahontas in England -- Unofficially in control -- The Great Assault of 1622 -- A war of attrition, including an English massacre -- Running out of time.
Subject Powhatan Indians -- Virginia -- Jamestown -- Biography.
Powhatan Indians.
Virginia -- Jamestown.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Powhatan Indians -- Virginia -- Jamestown -- History.
History.
Jamestown (Va.) -- History.
Pocahontas, -1617.
Pocahontas, -1617.
Powhatan, approximately 1550-1618.
Powhatan, approximately 1550-1618.
Opechancanough, -1646.
Opechancanough, -1646.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 0813923239 cloth alkaline paper