| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians. By Michael Leroy Oberg. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xvi, 205 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-8122-4031-3.)
This book is a retelling of the story of Walter Ralegh's colonizing efforts at Roanoke Island from an unfamiliar angle. As Michael Leroy Oberg explains, it is "an attempt to tell the story of the Roanoke ventures from the perspective of the Indians" (p. xii).	1
The book clearly was inspired by Daniel K. Richter's award-winning, Facing East from Indian Country (2001). In fact, it is published in a series edited by Richter. Oberg's focus is much narrower than Richter's, making Oberg's task much more difficult. Although evidence of Indian thinking about the English and how to deal with them is scarce, Richter was able to gather enough to be persuasive. He succeeded because he searched for such evidence over the entire Atlantic seaboard over the entire colonial era. For most of the period he was able to quote speeches and other statements from native leaders believably translated into English by bilingual (often mixed-blood) interpreters.	. . .

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