Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough : three Indian lives changed by Jamestown /
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| Author / Creator: | Rountree, Helen C., 1944- |
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| Imprint: | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2005. |
| Description: | xii, 292 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5625953 |
Table of 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.
