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Pocahontas (b.Circa 1595,d.1617)
Unidentified Artist, Date: 1616, Oil Canvas
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Recommended Books

Allen, Paula Gunn (Laguna Pueblo & Sioux). Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat. 2003. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco. Adult.

Axtell, James. The Rise & Fall of the Powhatan Empire: Indians in 17th Century Virginia. 1995. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Adult.

Custalow, Linwood "Little Bear" (Mattaponi), & Angela L. Daniel "Silver Star" (Mattaponi). The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History, From the Sacred History of the Mattaponi Reservation People. 2007. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing. Adult. The story of Pocahontas according to the oral history of the Mattaponi Tribe of Virginia.

Egloff, Keith, & Deborah Woodward. First People: The Early Indians of Virginia. 1992, 2006. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. Well illustrated. Adult; also suitable for junior/ senior high school students.

Feest, Christian F. The Powhatan Tribes. 1989. New York & Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers. Well illustrated. Junior/senior high school.

Gleach, Frederic W. Powhatan's World & Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures. 1997. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Adult.

Holler, Anne. Pocahontas: Powhatan Peacemaker. 1993. New York & Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers. Well illustrated. Junior/senior high school.

Lemay, J.A. Leo. Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith? 1992. Athens: University of Georgia Press. Adult.

McCary, Ben C. Indians in 17th Century Virginia. 1957, 1992. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. Adult.

McDaniel, Melissa. The Powhatan Indians. 1996. New York & Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers. Well illustrated. Grades four and up.

Rasmussen, William M.S., & Robert S. Tilton. Pocahontas: Her Life & Legend. 1994. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society. Well illustrated catalog of an exhibition of depictions of Pocahontas. Discusses the accuracy (or lack thereof) of the images. Adult.

Rountree, Helen C. Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries. 1990, 1996. and The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture. 1989, 1992. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Adult.

Rountree, Helen C. Pocahontas Powhatan Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown. 2005. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. Adult.

Rountree, Helen C., editor. Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722. 1993. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville. Adult.

Tilton, Robert S. Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative. 1994. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press. Adult.

Townsend, Camilla. Pocahontas & the Powhatan Dilemma. 2004. New York: Hill & Wang. Adult.

Trigger, Bruce, editor. Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 15: Northeast. 1978. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. Includes a chapter by Christian F. Feest on the Algonquian-speaking peoples of Virginia. Adult.

Wood, Peter H., Gregory A. Waselkov, & M. Thomas Hatley, editors. Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast. 1989. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Collection of twelve essays by historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists. Adult.

Woodward, Grace S. Pocahontas. 1969, 1980. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Adult.

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Revised 06/08

 

 
 


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