A place to share interests on Virginia Indians in the seventeenth century from a longhouse perspective
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
The Other Jamestown: Virginia Indians in Early America
The Other Jamestown: Virginia Indians in Early America: The narrative of Indians in seventeenth-century Virginia seems always to be cast in the mode of "imperial history." It is European events, t...
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Virginia Indians in Early America
The narrative of Indians in seventeenth-century Virginia seems always to be cast in the mode of "imperial history." It is European events, timelines, people, agendas, and background that is important and Indians are treated as obstacles, a side-show, or more recently as victims. Historians need to reinterpret the story of Virginia's Indians from inside the longhouse or yehakans, as Indians called their houses. Do you agree? What will be required to accomplish this task?
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