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:
Census Records
Virginia Legislative Petitions
Local Records – Check local Clerk of Courts or microfilm copies
Maps
Newspapers: Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, and other Virginia newspapers
Periodical/Serials:
Chesopiean : A Journal of Archaeology North American
Quarterly Bulletin (Archaeological Society of Virginia)
Tyler’s Quarterly
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
William and Mary Quarterly
Photographs, Lithographs, and printed images
Special Collections & Archives of Virginia in universities and other libraries
Check the Archival Resources of the Virginias Database: https://arvasarchive.org/
Virginia State Records
SMC's Norfolk and Virginia Vertical Files
Virginia Colonial Records:
Acts of Assembly (1776 – Present) Call # 345 VIR
Calendar of Virginia State Papers (1652 – 1869) Call # 353 VIR
Hening’s Statues (1619 – 1750) Call # 345 VIR
Journals of the House of Burgesses ( 1659 – 1776) Call # 975.5 VIR
The Records of the Virginia Company of London (1606 - 1626) Call # 975.5 VIR