"Explains Powhatan history and highlights Powhatan life in modern society"--

Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Powhatan people, tracing their customs, family life, history, culture, and relations with the United States government.

Discusses the Powhatan, their daily activities, customs, family life, religion, and the story of Pocahontas.

Simple text and illustrations introduce the life of the Powhatan Indian who worked throughout her life to establish peace between her people and the English.

In Pocahontas and the English Boys, the esteemed historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia's founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationships--and became essential for the colony's survival. Their story gives us unprecedented access to all the players in early Virginia. Kupperman presents the real story...

The apocryphal story of the meeting of British explorer John Smith and Powhatan native Pocahontas as a romantic idyll between spiritual equals. It then follows Pocahontas through her marriage to John Rolfe and her life in England.

At the beginning of the 17th century, three ships arrive in "The New World," to found the settlement of Jamestown, in what will become the colony of Virginia. The English see a pristine Eden, and the inhabitants of the great native civilization see invaders. Captain John Smith -- sent on a reconnaissance mission to scope out "the Naturals'" fortifications -- is quickly captured and sentenced to death by the chief. At the last moment the chief's favorite...

A short biography on Pocahontas, the young American Indian girl who helped the earliest English settlers survive in their new land. Introduces the life and legacy of the American Indian girl, whose help was instrumental in the survival of the early English settlers at Jamestown.