Pocahontas Powhatan Opechancanough : : Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
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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.
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PUBLISHED
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, c2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: xii, 292 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0813923239
SUBJECTS
Pocahontas, -- d. 1617.
Powhatan, -- ca. 1550-1618.
Opechancanough, -- d. 1646.
Powhatan Indians -- Jamestown -- Biography.
Powhatan Indians -- Jamestown -- History.
Jamestown (Va.) -- History.