Townsend brings new perspectives to bear on an individual who has been frequently portrayed, but seldom understood, over the course of the last four centuries. Townsend has written a book that is especially easy to read. Making exceptional use of recent archaeological work in the Virginia Tidewater, insights from her own published work on Latin America, judicious conclusions drawn from linguistic evidence, and just the right amount of historical imagination, Townsend has composed out of a fragmentary historical record a compelling portrait of Pocahontas. A young girl when first she encountered the English, Pocahontas learned over the course of her brief life to love—and to hate— Englishmen, and Townsend Most users should sign in with their email address. If you originally registered with a username please use that to sign in.
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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 worldnot only to the invading British but to ourselves.
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.
This is an interesting factual look at a story many of us has come to know through fictional accounts. Pocahontas did marry John Rolfe, but probably did not convert to Christianity or visit England Famous in American legend as the Indian woman who saved and then married Captain John Smith of Jamestown, Pocahontas has often been a symbol of the capitulation of Native America to British Camilla Townsend. Back Matter. Back Cover.
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Pocahontas might be a household name, but the true story of her short but powerful life has been buried in myths that have persisted since the 17th century. Born about , her real name was Amonute, and she also had the more private name Matoaka. Pocahontas was the favorite daughter of Powhatan, the formidable ruler of the more than 30 Algonquian-speaking tribes in and around the area that the early English settlers would claim as Jamestown, Virginia. Years later—after no one was able to dispute the facts—John Smith wrote about how she, the beautiful daughter of a powerful native leader, rescued him, an English adventurer, from being executed by her father. This narrative of Pocahontas turning her back on her own people and allying with the English, thereby finding common ground between the two cultures, has endured for centuries.
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In Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma , historian Camilla Townsend attempts to revise the inaccurate, racist, and harmful cultural myths about Pocahontas , the Powhatan people, and the colonization of the Virginia Tidewater region—known as Tsenacomoco to the Algonkian -speaking tribes native to the area. Though the Virginia Company , chartered by King James I of England, arrived in Virginia in , Townsend posits that an understanding of the complex relationship between the English and the Native Americans lies in the history both of England and of the New World. This lifestyle allowed them to focus on other areas of development including metalworking and weaponry. This meant that while they were powerful warriors and savvy politicians on the cusp of developing systems of taxation, a written language, a formal calendar, and metalwork for weaponry, the arrival of the settlers meant that any chance of innovation or development was lost forever. However, Townsend posits that Pocahontas is, in fact, the daughter of a commoner, and of little political value to Powhatan at all in the early years of her life. In the spring of , when Pocahontas is around nine years old, a group of Englishmen who have either paid their way or sold their labor to travel to the New World and settle a colony at Jamestown arrive in the Tsenacomoco region. Townsend destroys another myth associated with this first meeting between Powhatan and Smith, stating that Powhatan never tried to kill Smith.
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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 worldnot only to the invading British but to ourselves. 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.