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Book Review

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Scott R. Trevithick
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1998, pp. 164-166
Book review of: Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures by Frederic W. Gleach.
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The Ethnological Significance of Tindall's Map of Virginia, 1608

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maurice A. Mook
William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 4, 2nd series, October 1943, pp. 371-408
Discusses journals of Robert Tindall and his maps, which are primary resource for 17th century settlement and tribal locations.
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Eugenics as Indian Removal: Sociohistorical Processes and the De(con)struction of American Indians in the Southeast

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angela Gonzales
Judy Kertész
Gabrielle Tayac
The Public Historian, vol. 29, no. 3, Summer, 2007, pp. 53-67
Discusses how Southern legislators and administrators refused to acknowledge American Indians as a distinct society and lumped them with blacks as a method of cultural erasure.
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The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their First Beginning. an⁰: 1584. to this Present 1624. With the Procedings of those Severall Colonies and the Accidents that Befell them in all their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of all those Countryes, their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes.

E-Books
Author/Creator
John Smith
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A Map of Virginia: VVith a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion. VVritten by Captaine Smith, Sometimes Governour of the Countrey. Whereunto is Annexed the Proceedings of those Colonies, Since their First Departure from England, with the Discourses, Orations, and Relations of the Salvages, and the Accidents that Befell them in all their Iournies and Discoveries. Taken Faithfully as they were Written Out of the Writings of Doctor Russell. Tho. Studley. Anas Todkill. Ieffra Abot. Richard Wiefin. Will. Phettiplace. Nathaniel Povvell. Richard Pots. And the Relations of Divers Other Diligent Observers there Present then, and Now Many of them in England.

Alternate Title
Early English Books Online
E-Books
Author/Creator
John Smith
Early English Books Online
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The Narrative of Nancy, A Cherokee Woman

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tiya Miles
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 29, no. 2 & 3, 2008, pp. 59-80
Examines Nancy’s story as a case study about Cherokees, race, slavery, and property dispute.
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Native Americans in Elementary School Social Studies Textbooks

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maxel J. Ferguson
Dan B. Fleming
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 23, no. 2, January 1984, pp. [10-15]
Study assesses Native American content of 34 elementary textbooks used in Virginia including some used nationwide.
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The Negro's & Indians Advocate, Suing for their Admission to the Church, or, A Persuasive to the Instructing and Baptizing of the Negro's and Indians in our Plantations : Shewing that as the Compliance Therewith Can Prejudice No Mans Just Interest, So the Wilful Neglecting and Opposing of It, Is No Less than a Manifest Apostacy from the Christian Faith : to Which is Added, a Brief Account of Religion in Virginia

Alternate Title
Early English Books Online
Negro's and Indians Advocate
Persuasive to the Instructing and Baptizing of Negro's and Indians
E-Books
Author/Creator
Morgan Godwyn
p. [14], 174
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Pocahontas

Alternate Title
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
[Civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 93]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Grace Steele Woodward
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Pocahontas at the Masque

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen Robertson
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 21, no. 3, Spring, 1996, pp. 551-583
Discussion of the interactions of English society and Pocahontas during her visit to the court of James I.
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Princess Pocahontas, Rebecca Rolfe (1595-1617)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donald K. Sharpes
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, 1995, pp. 231-239

Relays the true story of Pocahontas who saved the life of John Smith, leader of the first American settlement in Jamestown, but unlike the Disney version, she did not fall in love with him or marry him.

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Reflecting on Pocahontas

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gail Tremblay
Frontiers, vol. 23, no. 2, 2002, pp. 121-123
Brief biography of the Algonquin "princess" who was kidnapped by the British, converted to Christianity and visited the court of James I.
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The Renape People: A Brief Survey of Relationships and Migrations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jack Forbes
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring, 1986, pp. 14-20
Description of the migrations of the Wapanakamikok or Eastern Land People and the Algonkian family dialects, which have gradually changed from village to village.
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Through a Glass Darkly, Colonial Attitudes toward the Native American

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Axtell
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 1974, pp. 17-28
Focuses on conflicts between settlers and Indigenous peoples of New England, and the justifications used to condone acts such as the bounty placed on scalps.
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