Books written by Helen C. Rountree
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Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries
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 ...
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Manteo's World: Native American Life in Carolina's Sound Country before and after the Lost Colony
Then narrating the story of the famed Lost Colony from the Indigenous vantage point, Rountree reconstructs what it may have been like for both sides as stranded English settlers sought to merge with existing local communities.
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The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture
Rountree’s is the first book-length treatment of this fascinating culture, which included one of the most complex political organizations in native North American and which figured prominently in early American history.
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The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture
Introduces the festivals, folklore, rituals, and manners of eating, drinking and daily life among the Powhatan Indians
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Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
The Powhatans were a nonliterate people, so we have had to rely until now on the white settlers for our conceptions of the Jamestown experiment. This important book at last reconstructs the other side of the story.
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Before and After Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors
The story of America's first permanent English settlement as told through its relationship with Virginia’s native peoples.
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John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages, 1607-1609
Captain John Smith's voyages throughout the new world did not end--or, for that matter, begin--with the trip on which he was captured and brought to the great chief Powhatan. Partly...
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Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland
Making use of exceptional primary documents, including county records dating as far back as 1632, Rountree and Davidson have produced a thorough and fascinating glimpse of the lives of Eastern Shore Indians that will enlighten general ...
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Before and After Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors
The story of America's first permanent English settlement as told through its relationship with Virginia’s native peoples.
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Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland
In Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland, the reader learns not only the characteristics and traditions of each tribe but also the plants and animals that were native to each ecozone and were essential components of the Indians' ...
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Beyond the Village: A Colonial Parkway Guide to the Local Indians' Use of Natural Resources
Beyond the Village: A Colonial Parkway Guide to the Local Indians' Use of Natural Resources
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Powhatan Indian Place Names in Tidewater Virginia
Gives variations of historic Indian place names under their most common spelling or modern equivalent.
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Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722
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 ...
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Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries
"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 ...
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Indians of Southern Maryland
New from the Maryland Historical Society, the story of Southern Maryland’s Native people. Here at last is the story of Southern Maryland’s Native people, from the end of the Ice Age to the present.