Pocahontas and the Powhatan dilemma

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Pocahontas and the Powhatan dilemma
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Camilla Townsend
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Language
eng
Summary
  • "Camilla Townsend's stunning book 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 English 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 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."--pub. desc
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Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
BRL
Dewey number
  • 975.5/01/092
  • B
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
E99.P85
LC item number
P5797 2005x
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
An American portrait

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