Over nearly 20 years; Mr. Brown and his associates at the Pocahontas Foundation in Berryville; Virginia; endeavored to compile the definitive genealogy of Pocahontas' descendants. The Foundation has issued a series of books that carries Pocahontas' descendants down to the present time. The base volume in the series; Pocahontas' Descendants; was originally published in 1985; followed by three volumes of corrections and additions. In 1994; Genealogical Publishing Company reprinted the base volume; along with the first two volumes of corrections and additions; in a single hardback volume. Third Corrections and Additions; published in 1997; is also available from Genealogical Publishing Company.The work at hand contains the final installments in this series. Fourth and Fifth Corrections and Additions to Pocahontas' Descendants consistsof two separate sections of additions and corrections to the existing canon; contains over 80 pages of changes and revisions; with separate indexes referring to more than 2;800 names. This new volume is an indispensable adjunct to contemporary Pocahontas scholarship and should be sought after by all persons and libraries that possess the earlier volumes.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Genocide; Ethnic Cleansing; or Something Else?By Roger D. LauniusThere has been a debate over the last quarter century about the fate of Native Americans at the hands of Europeans who came to the American continent and displaced them. An extreme position is that the Europeans engaged in “genocide;†systematically seeking to wipe-them out. There were some instances in which this clearly took place—Small Pox infected blankets; various massacres; and other atrocities come to mind—but United States policy was far from such an approach.No question; for nearly four centuries a technologically superior European civilization constantly pressed the native population either to conform to a new hegemony or to withdraw from it; conquering the various first peoples and destroying their population in the process. By the close of the nineteenth century the native population had dwindled; ravaged by war and disease and starvation; to the extent that some began to characterize it as a “vanishing race.†In 1900 the Native American population in the United States reached a nadir at 237;196; a seven-fold decline from what it had been estimated in 1492. But was it genocide?Historian Gary Clayton Anderson does not believe so. Extermination was never the intention of Euro-Americans. Instead; he uses the term “ethnic cleasing†to characterize how Europeans and their descendants dealt with the native population. The objective of acquiring land and other resources from the native population motivated every aspect of Euro-American engagement with them. In that sense; according to Anderson; the “ethnic cleansing†term is more appropriate than genocide to describe what happened to Native Americans. The term; of course; gained fame in the Balkan wars of the 1990s and suggested the same concept of purging some groups from land wanted by other groups.One may debate this characterization and there are other books that argue for Native American genocide. An argument about genocide may be found in Alex Alvarez; "Native America and the Question of Genocide" (Rowman Littlefield; 2014) and Andrew Woolford; Jeff Benvenuto; and Alexander Laban Hinton; eds.; "Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America" (Duke University Press; 2014). The bulk of Anderson’s book is devoted to making his case for “ethnic cleansing;†followed by a set of case studies explicating it throughout American history.2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. An excellent account of this tragic series of eventsBy CustomerAn excellent account of this tragic series of events. Whilst the thirteenth amendment to the US constitution is and will always be comendable; it is an astonishing enigma in the history of the US; how they treated the indigenous and rightful population of the land.3 of 15 people found the following review helpful. So; Dakota Daughter; two things: what'd you ...By ChristianSo; Dakota Daughter; two things: what'd you think of the book? 2) is it also your assertion that Americans can also not write histories of European nations? Just because somebody isn't from a particular ethnic group or nationality doesn't mean they have nothing to contribute.
