About this title: When Captain John Smith explored the Potomac River in 1608, it was a frontier between two of the most politically complex Indian cultures in the Middle Atlantic region - the Conoy chiefdom of southern Maryland and the Powhatan chiefdom of eastern Virginia. Some of these diverse Algonquian-speaking peoples acknowledged the overlordship of the Piscataways, the largest group of the Conoys, others acknowledged no ruler greater than their own. The rise and fall of these polities is the subject of "Commoners, Tribute, and Chiefs". Using a combination of archaeology, anthropology and ethnohistory, ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780813914220ISBN:0813914221
Description: New in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 267 p. Audience: General/trade. Book is new, ordered direct from distributor and never placed on shelf. DJ may show light bumping from packing/unpacking process. No remainder marks. The development of Angonquian culture in the potomac valley. read more
Edition: First Published
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780813914220ISBN:0813914221
Description: Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 0-8139-1422-1 University Press Traces the rise of one Indian group, the Chicacoans & the development of the Algonquian culture in the Chesapeake., nice clean text, illustrations, maps, graphs/charts, very light foxing on top edge, minor shelf wear to dj, 267pp. w/index. read more
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