Before and after Jamestown
Subtitle: Virginia's Powhatans and their predecessors
By: Helen C. Rountree and E. Randolph Turner III ; foreword by Jerald T. Milanich.
Contributors: Turner, E. Randolph
Series: Native peoples, cultures, and places of the southeastern United States
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Powhatan Indians -- History; Powhatan Indians -- Government relations; Powhatan Indians -- Social life and customs
Description: "Addressed to specialists and nonspecialists alike, Before and After Jamestown introduces the Powhatans - the Native Americans of Virginia's coastal plains, who played an integral part in the life of the Williamsburg and Jamestown settlements - in scenes that span 1,100 years, from just before their earliest contact with non-Indians to the present day."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1; title: 1. Indian Life in the Late Woodland Period (ca. A.D. 900-ca. 1500) 10; title: 2. The Protohistoric Period (ca. 1500-1607) 36; title: 3. Powhatan Indian Culture When the English Arrived 78; title: 4. The Indian Presence at Jamestown Fort 125; title: 5. The First Century of English Occupation 140; title: 6. The Middle Centuries 177; title: 7. A Century of Public Struggle 211; title: Places to Visit 237.