Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland
Helen C. Rountree. with Thomas E. Davidson
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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.
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
1. The Native People's World
2. The First Century with Virginia
3. The First Century with Maryland
4. The Maryland Reservations after 1700
5. Virginia's Gingaskin Reservation after 1700
6. Geography, Ecology, and the Eastern Shore Tribes
Appendix A. Indian Personal Names on the Virginia Eastern Shore
Appendix B. Indian Personal Names on the Maryland Eastern Shore
Appendix C. Major Useful Wild Plants of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia
Appendix D. Fish and Shellfish Usable by the Indians of the Chesapeake Bay
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Tables
Preface
1. The Native People's World
2. The First Century with Virginia
3. The First Century with Maryland
4. The Maryland Reservations after 1700
5. Virginia's Gingaskin Reservation after 1700
6. Geography, Ecology, and the Eastern Shore Tribes
Appendix A. Indian Personal Names on the Virginia Eastern Shore
Appendix B. Indian Personal Names on the Maryland Eastern Shore
Appendix C. Major Useful Wild Plants of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia
Appendix D. Fish and Shellfish Usable by the Indians of the Chesapeake Bay
Notes
Bibliography
Index
