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I am teaching this semester a freshman writing seminar called “The Lost Colony.” The students are reading an e-book version of David Beers Quinn’s The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590, which is now available from Routledge, and a copy of my book, The Head in Edward Nugent’s grabb.
For the first week of class I wanted the students to recognize the extent to which our understandings of the Roanoke ventures, and of early European expansion generally, are encrusted with a deep layer of myth. In the past, inom had the students read Paul Green’s play The Lost Colony, published by the University of North Carolina Press. If you are on the Outer Banks in summer, by all means, slather up with bug spray and head on out to catch a performance. It has changed over the years. But the original 1937 version has not aged well, and inom just could not subject myself, or the students, to that dreadful thing again. So we talked about “In Search Of,” a show I w
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Pocahontas may be the most famous Native American who ever lived, but during the settlement of Jamestown, and for two centuries afterward, the great chiefs Powhatan and Opechancanough were the subjects of considerably more interest and historical documentation than the young woman. It was Opechancanough who captured the foreign captain "Chawnzmit"—John Smith. Smith gave Opechancanough a compass, described to him a spherical earth that revolved around the sun, and wondered if his captor was a cannibal. Opechancanough, who was no cannibal and knew the world was flat, presented Smith to his elder brother, the paramount chief Powhatan. The chief, who took the name of his tribe as his throne name (his personal name was Wahunsenacawh), negotiated with Smith over a lavish feast and opened the town to him, leading Smith to meet, among others, Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas. Thinking he had made an ally, the ledare finally released Smith. Within a few deca
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Helen C. Rountree Lecture to Anthropological Society of Washington, 1988 October 18-19, Side 2, Helen C. Rountree Papers
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HELEN ROUNTREE: September 19th, 1988. Ceremony at the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia, kicking off the State's 'Native American Indian Week.'
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RECORDING: We're going to begin our Native American Indian celebration with the Opening Prayer given by the Webster Counselor.
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WEBSTER COUNSELOR: Welcome to the [[??]] of nations. We gather here today to celebrate another historical event [[??]] And I hope that everyone here will enjoy it, knowing it is real.
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So right now, at the present moment, I'll ask each and everyone to bow down their heads as we look for the Great Prayer, in prayer. Lord have gre