Binding: Paperback
Description: Camilla Townsend's stunning new book Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma 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 British but to ourselves. Neither na ve 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 here 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. 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.
Title: Pocahontas And The Powhatan Dilemma The American Portraits Series
Author(s): Townsend Camilla
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780809077380
Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/1/2005
Category: Autobiography: General