The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture (Volume 193) (The Civilization of the Am

Among the aspects of Powhatan life that Helen Rountree describes in vivid detail are hunting and agriculture, territorial claims, warfare and treatment of prisoners, physical appearance and dress, construction of houses and towns, education of youths, initiation rites, family and social structure and customs, the nature of rulers, medicine, religion, and even village games, music, and dance.

Rountree’s is the first book-length treatment of this fascinating culture, which included one of the most complex political organizations in native North American and which figured prominently in early American history.

• First People: The Early Indians of Virginia
• The Ambiguous Iroquois Empie: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies
• Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)
• Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country (Early American Studies)
• Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
• Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries (Volume 196) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
• The Comanche Empire (The Lamar Series in Western History)
• The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
• Captain John Smith: Writings with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of America
• The Blackfeet: Raiders on the Northwestern Plains (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) (Volume 49)