Arguing that Native Americans offered an intelligent and nuanced resistence to colonial domination, the author investigates the role Pocahontas, and her father King Powhatan, played in history, from a new perspective.

Frederic W. Gleach offers the most balanced and complete accounting of the early years of the Jamestown colony to date. When English colonists established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607, they confronted a powerful and growing Native chiefdom consisting of over thirty tribes under one paramount chief, Powhatan. For the next half-century, a portion of the Middle Atlantic coastal plain became a charged and often violent meeting ground between two very different worlds. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Helen C. Rountree, one of the foremost authorities on the history and anthropology of the thirty Algonquian-speaking Indian tribes known as the Powhatans of Virginia, has assembled the work of a first-rate group of contributors to provide a multifaceted look at these diverse and fascinating peoples...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)