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The Powhatan landscape
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- Book Synopsis
- Native American history is primarily studied through the lens of European contact, and the story of Virginia's Powhatans traditionally focuses on the English arrival in the Chesapeake. Meanwhile, a deeper indigenous history remains largely unexplored. The Powhatan Landscape breaks new ground by tracing Native placemaking in the Chesapeake from the Algonquian arrival to the Powhatan's clashes with the English. Martin Gallivan details how Virginia Algonquians constructed riverine communities alongside fishing grounds and collective burials and later within horticultural towns. Even after the violent ruptures of the colonial era, Native people returned to riverine towns for pilgrimages commemorating the enduring power of place. For today's American Indian communities in the Chesapeake, this reexamination of landscape and history represents a powerful basis from which to contest narratives and policies that have denied their existence.
- About The Author
- Martin D. Gallivan, associate professor of anthropology at William and Mary, is the author of James River Chiefdoms: The Rise of Social Inequality in the Chesapeake.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780813062860
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida, (09 August 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Weight
- 526 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 151 x 20 mm
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