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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma : The American Portraits Series (American Portraits)
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma The American Portraits Series - American Portraits Author:Camilla Townsend Camilla Townsend's stunning 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 to ourselves. — Neither naïve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father... more », 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 as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name.« less
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C.L G. reviewed Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma : The American Portraits Series (American Portraits) on + 13 more book reviews
This was a really great book. It wasn't stuffy or dry, yet at the same time the scholarship was excellent. Townsend is one of those historians that can suck you into the past with her wonderful descriptions of people, and the time period.