Indian interaction with Virginia colonists played a central role in the formation of modern Virginia
Kristalyn Marie Shefveland is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Indiana, USA.
Kristalyn Marie Shefveland has written a succinct history of
Anglo-Native relations in Virginia, focusing on the tributary
system, trading routes, Indian slave trade, and, to a lesser
extent, conversion in the Coastal Plain and Piedmont regions during
the midcolonial period.--Arica L. Coleman "Native American and
Indigenous Studies"
This slim but potent book begins where, until recently, most
histories of Virginia Indians end: with the English defeat of the
Powhatans and murder of Opechancanough in 1646. Joining the growing
emphasis on Native survival and agency, Shefveland shows how,
during the subsequent 75 years, Native peoples played a central
role in the transformation of Virginia from struggling outpost to
plantation province that made the colony (and a few powerful
families) wealthy and powerful.--D. R. Mandell "CHOICE connect"
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