| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Helen C. Rountree. Pocahontas, Powhatan, and Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 292. $29.95.

In May 2006, eighteen months of public festivities will inaugurate the four hundredth anniversary of Jamestown's founding. Multiple new publications and movies have prepared the way for the upcoming celebrations, including Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma by Camilla Townsend (2004), Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation, by David A. Price (2003), The New World (2005), an adult movie version of the Pocahontas/John Smith romance, and an anniversary edition of Pocahontas. But in this rising field of recent new work, it is Helen C. Rountree's book that most deserves our attention. Her work shifts scholarly attention from Pocahontas to a more complicated and nuanced narrative, framed by the lives of three indigenous people: Pocahontas, Powhatan, and Opechancanough. All three were central to understanding what happened at Jamestown, and by restructuring the narrative around their lives, the author incorporates indigenous voices. These voices have been difficult to hear and yet directly affect the perspective from which we choose to study the meeting of divergent cultures.

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