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"Camilla Townsend's new book differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth-century Native Americans were - in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world - not only to the invading English, but also to ourselves." "Neither naive nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is shown here as a road map of Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope of a semblance of independence worth the name." "Townsend's Pocahontas emerges - as a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in London - for the first time in three dimensions, allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before."--BOOK JACKET.
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Powhatan women, Government relations, Powhatan Indians, History, Biography, Pocahontas, -1617People
John Rolfe, Pocahontas (d. 1617)Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Pocahontas and the Powhatan dilemma
2005, Hill and Wang
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0809077388 9780809077380
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Pocahontas and the Powhatan dilemma: an American portrait
2004, Hill and Wang
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-[216]) and index
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