Chief Powhatan (Wahunsenacawh)
Pocahontas (Amonute) Or (Matoaka)
Squanto (Tisquantum)
Massasoit (Ousamequin)
Samoset / Somerset
Metacomet (Pometacom) Or (King Philip)
Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea)
Chief Pontiac (Obwaandi'eyaag)
The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts
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This book discusses how the French and British adapted their fortification techniques to the special needs of the North American frontier. By exploring the unique structures that guarded the borderlands, this book reveals much about the underlying economies and dynamics of the broader conflict that defined a critical period of the American experience.
The French and Indian War
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This book begins with a detailed timeline that provides both local and global contexts and a narrative chapter providing a bird's-eye view of the war's unfolding. The book includes chapters detailing the complex and fascinating interactions of Native Americans, French settlers, British colonials, and imperial officials. The work concludes with a chapter delving into the long-term local and global consequences of the war.
A Land As God Made It : Jamestown and the Birth of America
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The book explains that Jamestown, not Plymouth, was the true crucible of American history. Jamestown introduced slavery into English-speaking North America, it became the first of England's colonies to adopt a representative government; and it was the site of the first white-Indian clashes over territorial expansion. It offers the definitive account of the colony that gave rise to America.
Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia : A Conflict of Cultures
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This book has the most balanced and complete accounting of the early years of the Jamestown colony to date. The book discusses o the English 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.
Spirit of the New England tribes: Indian history and folklore, 1620-1984
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This collection traces the historical evolution of legends, folktales, and traditions of four major native American groups from their earliest encounters with European settlers to the present. The book is based on some 240 folklore texts gathered from early colonial writings, newspapers, magazines, diaries, local histories, anthropology and folklore publications, a variety of unpublished manuscript sources, and field research with living Indians.
This Torrent of Indians : War on the Southern Frontier, 1715-1728
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The Autor's detailed narrative and analyses demonstrates the horror and cruelty of a war of survival. The organization, equipment, and tactics used by South Carolinians and Indians were influenced by the differing customs but both sides acted with savage determination to extinguish their foes. The book shares stories from both sides of the battlefield, which were tales of the courageous, faint of heart, inept, and the upstanding. The book gives us an original and fresh, ground-level account of that critical period, 1715 to 1728, when the southern frontier was a very dangerous place.
The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
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The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people.
Witchcraft in Early North America
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The authors book takes us beyond the infamous outbreak at Salem, Massachusetts, to look at how witchcraft was a central feature of colonial societies in North America. Her substantial and lively introduction orients readers to the subject and to the rich selection of documents that follows.
The History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York in America: A Critical Edition
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This book depicts the 5 Indian Nations of Iroquois tribes during the Colonial Period. The nations consisted of Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and the Tuscaroras.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Samuel de Champlain Before 1604 : Des Sauvages and Other Documents Related to the Period
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The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
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