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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rountree, Helen C., 1944-
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2005], ©2005.
Subjects:
Powhatan people > Virginia > Jamestown > Biography.
Powhatan people > Virginia > Jamestown > History.
Jamestown (Va.) > History.
Pocahontas, > -1617.
Powhatan, > approximately 1550-1618.
Opechancanough, > -1646.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:xii, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.