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A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America
By Horn, James
- ISBN
- 9780465038909
- Publisher
- Basic
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Starred Review on November 1, 2021 | Social Sciences
A new historical biography of Powhatan Confederacy paramount chief Opechancanough (ca. 1547–1646) and his leadership against the threat posed by English colonization in the Chesapeake Bay (present-day Virginia). Historian Horn (1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy) contends that relations between the Powhatan people, other Indigenous nations, and the English were constantly shifting. This book complicates centuries of mainstream historiography and the narrativ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
