Links

Pocahontas Sites

The Pocahontas Archive
Pocahontas Lives!
The Real Pocahontas by David Morenus; also interesting family tree information by Morenus

Jamestown Sites

Virtual Jamestown

Parks & Museums

Captain John Smith Chesapeake - National Park Service; also Smith Maps
Historic Jamestowne - National Park Service
Historic Jamestowne - Jamestown Rediscovery
Henricus Historical Park; also on Facebook If either link has issues, try the Virginia is for Lovers link or maybe the listing on the National Park Service site.)

Biographies

Pocahontas (Encyclopedia Virginia)
Pocahontas (New World Encyclopedia)
Free online biography of Pocahontas by Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)
In Search of Pocahontas (1999) by Kathleen Brown (PDF), in The Human Tradition in Colonial America

John Smith (Encyclopedia Virginia)
John Smith of Jamestown (New World Encyclopedia)
Charles Dudley Warner's 1881 analysis of John Smith's writings (PDF)

Timelines

Chronology of Jamestown Events at Historic Jamestowne
Chronology of Powhatan Indian Activity at Historic Jamestown
Jamestown - Timeline at The Literature of Justification by Edward J. Gallagher / Lehigh University
Pocahontas Time line at The Pocahontas Archive by Edward J. Gallagher / Lehigh University

Podcasts
The American History Podcast (by Sarah Tanksalvala) - Jamestown 1607-1620

Virginia History Podcast (by Robert Van Ness) - Home

The podcasts above are also available on Stitcher and other podcast apps.

The Pocahontas Symposium (Nov. 14, 2018) - Virginia Museum of History & Culture

The Pocahontas Project - Rick Tatnall

Colonial History

Virginia's First People Past & Present - Virginia Dept. of Education
Jamestown v. Plymouth: Where is America's Hometown? video on YouTube by Atun-shei Films; caution! auto-play
Reddit thread on why Hampton, Va (1610) and Newport News, (1613) don't get the attention that Jamestown does - 7/2020 https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/hka5nf/the_founding_narrative_of_the_united_states_gives/
{This link worked on my PC, but it appeared as a dead link to others, so I saved it as a PDF. Apologies to Reddit.]

Journal & Media Articles (when I get to it; sorry!)

Bibliography of Jamestown Sources - Jamestown Archaeological Assessment, 1992-1996
Rethinking Jamestown, by Sheler, Jeffery L. Smithsonian Magazine, January 2005
Lost City of Powhatan by Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian Magazine, April 2007
The Final Word (thesis chapter) by Thomas Peace on Smith and Champlain; good commentary on John Smith, 2004
Marking the 400th Anniversary of Pocahontas's Death, by Cécile R. Ganteaume, Smithsonian Magazine, April 3, 2017
John Smith's Map of Virginia and Its Derivatives (PDF) - The Library of Virginia
The True Story of Pocahontas, by Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian Magazine, March 2017 (Camilla Townsend interview)

Frederic W. Gleach articles at Academia.edu - free with Google or Facebook log-in

The Ritual World of Pocahontas (2006) - Natural History Magazine
Pocahontas: An Exercise in Mythmaking and Marketing (2006)
Pocahontas at the Fair: Crafting Identities at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition (2003)
Controlled Speculation and Constructed Myths: The Saga of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (2003)
Powhatan Identity in Anthropology and Popular Culture (and Vice Versa) (2002)
Mimesis, Play, and Transformation in Powhatan Ritual (1995)
The Powhatan Indians and an Algonquian Aesthetic of Violence: A Work in Progress (1993)

also ...
Frederic W. Gleach 1992 article from the archives of the 23rd Algonquian Conference
A Traditional Story of the Powhatan Indians Recorded in the Early 19th Century with PDF download; re. Armstrong Archer

On Thanksgiving

The Invention of Thanksgiving - Philip DeLoria, Nov. 18, 2019, from The New Yorker. A description of the actual first Thanksgiving in Plymouth (including some Wampanoag history), as well as an account of how the holiday became a tradition in America.
Native Americans Have Little to Celebrate on Thanksgiving - David J. Silverman, Nov. 28, 2019, from The Daily Beast. On mythical Pilgrim/Indian harmony in colonial Plymouth and after..
Virginia History Podcast - The First Thanksgiving, Virginia 1619 - Nov. 17, 2017, by Robert Van Ness
This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later. - Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post; Nov. 4, 2021 (paywall)
What is Thanksgiving to Indigenous people? 'A day of mourning' - Michelle Shen, Nov. 23, 2021, USA Today
The real roots of Thanksgiving: Rethinking what happened 400 years ago at the first feast in Plymouth -Joey Garrison, Nov. 26, 2019, USA Today

On Cultural Appropriation

Wikipedia entry - Cultural appropriation
Deviant Art - Cultural Appropriation 101 - by RobynRose (2011)
Pocahontas was a mistake, and here's why! (2017 YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis, from 13:00 minute mark)
The incoherent, divisive dogma of cultural appropriation outrage - Shaun O'Dwyer, The Japan Times (2018)
The Do's and Don't's of Cultural Appropriation - Jenni Avins, The Atlantic (2015)
Why we need to pause before claiming cultural appropriation - Ash Sarkar, The Guardian (2019)
Raquel Evita Saraswati, Rachel Dolezal and the scandal of pretending to be another race - David Oliver, USA Today (2023)

List of colonists who died in 1622 Indian attack on Jamestown

What happened to the Pre-Contact Dogs?

A compendium of slavery, as it exists in the present day in the United States of America, by Archer, Armstrong (1844); Internet Archive

For links to Virginia Indians and Virginia Indian Tribes, please refer to the Powhatan Tribes page.
For film links, please refer to the Films page.

Last updated May 25, 2024 / Banner photo by Hadley-Ives