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Mixing chronological narrative with a full ecological portrait, anthropologists Rountree and Davidson have reconstructed the culture and history of Virginia's and Maryland's Eastern Shore Indians from a.d. 800 until the last tribes disbanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Helen C. Rountree, Professor of Anthropology at Old Dominion University, is the author of Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries and the editor of Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500--1722 (Virginia). Thomas E. Davidson is Chief Curator, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.
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WHEN EUROPEAN EXPLORERS first penetrated the Chesapeake Bay region in the sixteenth century, they encountered a rich land with several already-existing Native American societies there. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shore tribes, shore reservations, prime soils, paramount chiefdom, free nonwhites, duck potatoes, arrow arum, cow lilies, fall through early spring, emergent plants, absent south, broad creek, aboriginal times, maize agriculture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Late Woodland, Northampton County, Locust Neck, Chesapeake Bay, Choptank River, Pocomoke River, Indian River, Dorchester County, Abraham Bishop, Edmund Scarburgh, Thomas Savage, Six Nations, Kent Island, Choptank Indians, Five Nations, African Americans, Delaware Bay, Edmund Press, Esmy Shichans, American Revolution, Governor Berkeley, Maryland's Lord Proprietor, Grand Assembly, James River, John Pory New!
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WHEN EUROPEAN EXPLORERS first penetrated the Chesapeake Bay region in the sixteenth century, they encountered a rich land with several already-existing Native American societies there. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shore tribes, shore reservations, prime soils, paramount chiefdom, free nonwhites, duck potatoes, arrow arum, cow lilies, fall through early spring, emergent plants, absent south, broad creek, aboriginal times, maize agriculture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Late Woodland, Northampton County, Locust Neck, Chesapeake Bay, Choptank River, Pocomoke River, Indian River, Dorchester County, Abraham Bishop, Edmund Scarburgh, Thomas Savage, Six Nations, Kent Island, Choptank Indians, Five Nations, African Americans, Delaware Bay, Edmund Press, Esmy Shichans, American Revolution, Governor Berkeley, Maryland's Lord Proprietor, Grand Assembly, James River, John Pory New!
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- Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution by Ira Berlin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Nanticoke Indians by C. A. Weslager on page 199, and Back Matter
- Colonial Chesapeake Society by Lois Green Carr in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Late Woodland Cultures of the Middle Atlantic Region by Jay Custer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Tracts And Other Papers (3 Volumes) (Notable American Authors) by Peter Force in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America by Virginia DeJohn Anderson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Discovering the Chesapeake: The History of an Ecosystem by Philip D. Curtin on page 126
- Altruism by James Ozinga in Back Matter
- A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America by Nancy Shoemaker in Back Matter
- The Best and Worst Country in the World: Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism) by Professor Stephen Adams PhD in Back Matter
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