Manteo's world: Native American life in Carolina's Sound Country before and after the Lost Colony

"Roanoke. Manteo. Wanchese. Chicamacomico. These place names along today's Outer Banks are a testament to the Indigenous communities that thrived for generations along the Carolina coast. Though most sources for understanding these communities were written by European settlers who began to...

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Main Authors: Rountree, Helen C. 1944- (Author), Taukchiray, Wes 1948- (Author)
Other Authors: Harvey, Karen 1971- (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2021]
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Summary:"Roanoke. Manteo. Wanchese. Chicamacomico. These place names along today's Outer Banks are a testament to the Indigenous communities that thrived for generations along the Carolina coast. Though most sources for understanding these communities were written by European settlers who began to arrive in the late sixteenth century, those sources nevertheless offer a fascinating record of the region's Algonquian-speaking people. Here, drawing on decades of experience researching the ethnohistory of the coastal mid-Atlantic, Helen Rountree reconstructs the Indigenous world the Roanoke colonists encountered in the 1580s"--
Physical Description:xiii, 184 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm
ISBN:9781469662930
9781469662923

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