The Double Life of Pocahontas
Title | The Double Life of Pocahontas PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Fritz |
Publisher | Cavendish Square Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781559050920 |
A biography of the famous American Indian princess, emphasizing her life-long adulation of John Smith and the roles she played in two very different cultures.
The Double Life of Pocahontas
Title | The Double Life of Pocahontas PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Fritz |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780808592723 |
Jean Fritz removes the romantic varnish from (the Pocahontas) legend and turns history into engrossing reality.--The New Yorker. Boston Globe/Horn Book Award; ALA Notable Children's Book.
The Double Life of Pocahontas
Title | The Double Life of Pocahontas PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Fritz |
Publisher | Perfection Learning |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1987-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780812451825 |
This book dispels myths and describes with immediacy the life of the girl whose active conscience made her a pawn, exploited by her own people and the white world . . .--Publishers Weekly.
The Third Rainbow Girl
Title | The Third Rainbow Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Copley Eisenberg |
Publisher | Hachette Books |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2020-01-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0316449202 |
*** A NEW YORK TIMES "100 Notable Books of 2020" *** A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia—and the writer determined to put the pieces back together. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered in an isolated clearing. They were hitchhiking to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering but never arrived. For thirteen years, no one was prosecuted for the “Rainbow Murders” though deep suspicion was cast on a succession of local residents in the community, depicted as poor, dangerous, and backward. In 1993, a local farmer was convicted, only to be released when a known serial killer and diagnosed schizophrenic named Joseph Paul Franklin claimed responsibility. As time passed, the truth seemed to slip away, and the investigation itself inflicted its own traumas—-turning neighbor against neighbor and confirming the fears of violence outsiders have done to this region for centuries. In The Third Rainbow Girl, Emma Copley Eisenberg uses the Rainbow Murders case as a starting point for a thought-provoking tale of an Appalachian community bound by the false stories that have been told about. Weaving in experiences from her own years spent living in Pocahontas County, she follows the threads of this crime through the complex history of Appalachia, revealing how this mysterious murder has loomed over all those affected for generations, shaping their fears, fates, and desires. Beautifully written and brutally honest, The Third Rainbow Girl presents a searing and wide-ranging portrait of America—divided by gender and class, and haunted by its own violence.
Pocahontas, 1595-1617
Title | Pocahontas, 1595-1617 PDF eBook |
Author | Liz Sonneborn |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2003-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780736832908 |
From leading the Underground Railroad to heading the Confederate Army, readers will learn about the courageous women and men who shaped the Civil War and helped America define the meaning of freedom.
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
Title | Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma PDF eBook |
Author | Camilla Townsend |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2005-09-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1429930772 |
Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves. Neither naïve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is here shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name. Townsend's Pocahontas emerges--as a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in London--for the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.
Pocahontas
Title | Pocahontas PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Bruchac |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2005-10-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0547351054 |
In 1607, when John Smith and his "Coatmen" arrive in Powhatan to begin settling the colony of Virginia, their relations with the village's inhabitants are anything but warm. Pocahontas, the beloved daughter of the Powhatan chief, is just eleven, but this astute young girl plays a fateful, peaceful role in the destinies of two peoples. Drawing from the personal journals of John Smith, American Book Award winner Joseph Bruchac reveals an important chapter of history through the eyes of two legendary figures. Includes an afterword, a glossary, and other historical context.