Pocahontas's People

In this history Helen C. Roundtree traces events that shaped the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia from their first encounter with English colonists in 1607 to their present-day way of life and relationship to the state of Virginia and the federal government. Roundtree's examination of those four hundred years misses not a beat in the pulse of Powhatan life. Combining meticulous scholarship and sensitivity the author explores the diversity always found among Powhatan people and those people's relationships with the English the government of the fledgling United States the Union and the Confederacy the U.S. Census Bureau white supremacists the U.S. Selective Service and the civil rights movement.