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
• Powhatan Museum of Indigenous Arts and Culture
• Henricus Historical Park; also on Facebook (Sorry, but the main site URL seems to have 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)
• Pocahontas - The Powhatan Museum of Indigenous Arts and Culture
• 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

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

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• Powhatan (Encyclopedia Virginia)
• Powhatan (New World Encyclopedia)
• Powhatan - The Powhatan Museum of Indigenous Arts and Culture

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• John Rolfe (Encyclopedia Virginia)
• John Rolfe (New World Encyclopedia)

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

1. Paradise
2. John Smith and Pocahontas
3. The Coronation of Powhatan
4. Gunpowder
5. The Tempest
6. A New Era
7. The Kidnapping of Pocahontas
8. Bloodletting
9. The Politics of Virginia in England
10. The Virginia Company - King vs. Parliament

Virginia History Podcast (by Robert Van Ness) - Home

• Roanoke Island Series
• Jamestown Series
• Royal Virginia Series
• Interviews
• Virginia's Native History: Interview with Dr. Ashley Spivey (July 17, 2019)

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

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

• Session 1
• Session 2 
• Session 3

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The Pocahontas Project - Rick Tatnall

• PocahontasProject.org
• Pocahontas Project - Home | Facebook
• A Day of Honor for Pocahontas and a Celebration of the Virginia Indian Tribes (YouTube)
• RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF POCAHONTAS (PDF)

Colonial History

• History 110 (The Colonists) - Dr. Gayle Olson-Raymer (Humboldt State University); bullet points & timeline
• Virginia History Series - PDF slideshows re. Virginia history, including Indian pre-history and colonization era
• 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

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 Real First Thanksgiving - John McNeer, Nov. 27, 2019, from History Arch. An argument for an earlier (1619) Thanksgiving at Berkeley Plantation near Jamestown, which apparently did not feature the participation of friendly Indians.
• 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
• 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.

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Rick Tatnall's online course on Pocahontas called Pocahontas and the Virginia Indians (June 15 – August 23, 2020) is now finished for 2020. Some people may still want to check out Rick's page at Replenish Richmond.  (Sorry; page not active on Aug. 22, 2021.)​

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Last updated March 3, 2023 / Banner photo by Hadley-Ives