Native Virginians

By Troy Valos, March 2012

Prehistoric and Pre-Contact:

 

Egloff, Keith and Woodward, Deborah.  First People: The Early Indians of Virginia, Second Edition. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Call # 975.501 EGL 

Contact Period (1570s to 1620s):

 

Blanton, Dennis B., and Julia A. King. Indian and European Contact in Context: The Mid-Atlantic Region. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004.  Call # 973.0497 IND

 

Brose, David S., C. Wesley Cowan, and Robert C. Mainfort. Societies in Eclipse: Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700. Washington [D.C.]: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.  Call # 973.0497 SOC


Custalow, Linwood, and Angela L. Daniel. The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Pub, 2007.  Call # 975.501 CUS


Gallivan, Martin D. James River Chiefdoms: The Rise of Social Inequality in the Chesapeake. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.  Call # 975.5004 GAL

 

Gleach, Frederic W. Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia:  A Conflict of Cultures.  Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.   Call # 973.0497 GLE

 

King, J. A. "Haile, England in America: The Chesapeake Bay from Jamestown to St. Mary's City, 1607-1634". William and Mary Quarterly. 55, no. 2. (1998). 304-305.

Call # Bound Periodical section

 

Haile, Edward Wright. Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony, the First Decade, 1607-1617. Champlain, VA: RoundHouse, 1998.  Call # 975.5425 JAM

 

Harriot, Thomas, and Theodor de Bry. A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA: Published for the Library at the Mariners' Museum by the University of Virginia Press, 2007.  Call # 975.5 HAR

 

Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.  Call # 973.0497 KUP

 

Lewis, Clifford Merle, and Albert J. Loomie. The Spanish Jesuit Mission in Virginia, 1570-1572. Chapel Hill, NC: Published for the Virginia Historical Society by the University of North Carolina Press, 1953.  Call # 973.1 LEW

 

Sams, Conway Whittle. The Conquest of Virginia: the Forest Primeval; An Account, Based on Original Documents, of the Indians in That Portion of the Continent in Which Was Established the First English Colony in America. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1916.  Call # 975.502 SAM

 

Smith, John, and Charles Deane. A True Relation of Virginia. Virginia Series, no. 1. Boston: Wiggin and Lunt, 1866.  Call # 975.5 SMI

 

Strachey, William. The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania (1612). London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1953.  Call # 917.55 STR 1953

 

Townsend, Camilla. Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. Call # 975.0109 TOW

Virginia Tribes:

 

Axtell, James. The Rise and Fall of the Powhatan Empire: Indians in Seventeenth-Century Virginia. The Foundations of America. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1995.  Call # 973.0497 AXT

 

Beverley, Robert, and Louis B. Wright. The History and Present State of Virginia. Chapel Hill, NC: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, VA, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1947.  Call # 975.5 BEV

 

Houck, Peter W. Indian Island in Amherst County. Lynchburg, VA: Warwick House Pub, 1993. Call # 975.5496 HOU

 

McCary, Ben C. Indians in Seventeenth Century Virginia. Williamsburg, VA: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corp, 1957.  Call # 970.4 MCC 

 

Potter, Stephen R. Commoners, Tribute, and Chiefs: The Development of Algonquian Culture in the Potomac Valley. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1993. 

Call # 975.201 POT

 

Rountree, Helen C. Life in an Eastern Woodland Indian Village. Yorktown, VA: J. & R. Graphics, 2007.  Call # 973.0497 ROU 

 

Rountree, Helen C. The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture. The Civilization of the American Indian Series, [v. 193]. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.  Call # 306.08997 ROU

 

Rountree, Helen C. Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries. The Civilization of the American Indian Series, [v. 196]. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.  Call # 975.5 ROU

 

Rountree, Helen C. Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1993.   Call # 973.04973 ROU

 

Rountree, Helen C., and Thomas E. Davidson. Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1997.  Call # 975.21 ROU 

 

Rountree, Helen C., and E. Randolph Turner. Before and After Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors. Native peoples, cultures, and places of the southeastern United States. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2002.  Call # 975.5004 ROU

 

Williamson, Margaret Holmes. Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. 

Call # 973.0497 WIL

 

Willoughby, Charles Clark. The Virginia Indians in the Seventeenth Century. Lancaster, PA: New Era Print. Co, 1907.  Call # 970.1 WIL 

 Twentieth Century:

 

Cook, Samuel R. Monacans and Miners: Native American and Coal Mining Communities in Appalachia. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.  Call # 975.445 COO

 

Waugaman, Sandra F., and Danielle Moretti-Langholtz. We're Still Here: Contemporary Virginia Indians Tell Their Stories. Richmond, VA: Palari Pub, 2000.  Call # 973.0497 WAU

 

Whitlock, Rosemary Clark.  The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia: The Drums of Life. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, c2008. Call # 305.8009 WHI 

 

Wood, Karenne. The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail. Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2007.  MSS # 37 - Jamestown 2007 Collection

Other Resources to Consult:









Check the Archival Resources of the Virginias  Database: https://arvasarchive.org/