Pocahontas Books

These comics are enjoyed by our entire family. Our 10 year old son can't seem to put them down as the illustrations and content are clever and entertaining. We love how Bently Boyd brings history to life in a fun, creative and easy reading style. After my son is finished reading he can't wait to share what he read with the entire family. We have acquired the entire set of Chester Comix with Content Series and love them all. These make a GREAT gift for anyone of any age or even for teachers as they are an awesome learning tool. A gift that keeps giving. This is a definate must have for the entire family. ENJOY!

Massacre to Matriarch covers a history I have familiarity with, the bitter border warfare along the Appalachian Mountains in what is now southwest Virginia. This conflict involved several tribes, notably the Sawnee and Cherokee. The interior tribes in North America east of the Mississippi had an ambivalent relationship with the whites. Traders and occasional white hunters were not often molested by the Indians. Traders supplied the necessities of life. A central figure in Massacre is a half-blood war chief, Robert Benge, who conveys to white captive Fanny Scott his tribe's anger over the hordes of white settlers moving onto the tribal hunting grounds. The Indians made it clear to her, after killing all members of her famly, that white settlers were not welcome on Shawnee land. The Shawnee tribe would be a moving force in trying to unite all of the eastern tribes into a vast coalition to keep the American settlers and militia at bay. Such a union would have considerable success against American forces until the early 1790s. The eastern resistance of the Native Americans to government control of their territory west of the Appalachians would be in effect until after peace settlements were made with the U.S. government and Britain in 1815. Shawnee chief Tecumsah would be the last great leader among the tribes north of the Ohio. Fanny Scott suffered much on her trek back to the white settlement south of the Ohio River in her desperate bid for freedom. She would ultimately succeed and take a second husband and raise a second family, but her experience will stay with her for the rest of her life. In contrast to the bitter violence north of the Ohio, southern tribes such as the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw would try accommodating the white man after about 1820. Many white traders over the years had married into these tribes, so by 1800 a large contingent of mixed bloods existed. The mixed blood cast among the tribes for more land cessions, which upset the full blood. Ultimately mixed and full blood tribal members were forced to cooperate, to defy the executive orders for the forced removal of tribes to west of the Mississippi. Arguably the most inhumane experiment in early U.S. history was this removal policy, which grew out of earlier conflict between the Native American and European settlers in the 1800s. Blame can be reviewed from both perspectives. Fanny Scott's ordeal, and similar experiences, fashioned the sympathies of the thousands of citizens for the removal, yet even among politicians the Indian removal was not universally endorsed. Henry Clay of Kentucky, several times Speaker of the House David Crockett of Tennessee, and former Tennessee Governor Samuel Houston (who had a common-law Cherokee wife before getting involved in frontier Texas) were against the Indian removal policy, yet with frontiersman Andrew Jackson in the White House, Jackson's policy prevailed. The story of Fanny Scott is a passionate re-creation of a time and place many writers, including myself, have revisited many times. A short historical novel, 40-odd pages, in bilingual edition. Ken Dunn, as published in The United Lumbee Nation Times, Winter 1998-99.

Pocahontas County, West Virginia is situated in the southeastern portion of the Mountaineer State. It was formed in 1821 from portions of Randolph and Pendleton counties and what is today Bath County, Virginia. William Price's vast collection of sketches of Pocahontas County pioneers will interest anyone with ancestors in this region inasmuch as fully five-sixths of the volume consists of accounts of their exploits and the lives of family members. To be sure, the volume commences with one valuable treatise on Pocahontas geology and geography and another on the methods and customs of early settlers, yielding interesting tidbits about the local topography, climate, methods of agriculture, the establishment of the county, and so forth. The heart of the volume, however, consists of genealogical and biographical sketches of hundreds of Pocahontas founders and their families--many of them of Scotch-Irish descent--the lion's share of which are listed as follows: Arbogast, Auldridge, Baker, Barlow, Buckley, Beard, Burgess, Brown, Baxter, Burner, Beale, Bradshaw, Busard, Bright, Burr, Bridger, Craig, Clendennin, Cackley, Curry, Cleek, Conrad, Cassell, Collins, Cochran, Callison, Cooper, Curry, Crouch, Crabbottom, Dilley, Daugherty, Duffield, Drinnon, Dilley, Ervine, Edmiston, Friel, Flemmens, Grimes, Gay, Gibson, Galford, Gum, Gay, Humphreys, Hughes, Hill, Hannah, Herold, Harper, Hudson, James, Jordan, Killbuck, Kinnison, Kee, Kerr, Lewis, Lightner, Lockridge, Marlin, Mayse, Moore, McNeel, McCollam, McLaughlin, McClintic, McCutchan, McNeil, McCarty, Matthews, Nottingham, Poage, Price, Ruckman, Rodgers, Sewall, Slaven, Saunders, Sharp, Smith, Sutton, Tallman, Varner, Warwick, Waugh, Webb, Wanless, Waddell, Whiting, Wilson, Young, and Yeager.

Just People is a unique autobiography that chronicles the love story and challenges of a blind couple in their struggle to be independent and productive parents despite prejuidice and hardship. This true story makes you assess your own personal strength and weigh it against the remarkable triumphs of truly inspirational people. It is well told in an interesting documentary style that includes snippets of the human experience that make you laugh and wonder. It would be excellent assigned reading for high school students, as well as adult readers.

Knowing this fine lady, I now have a great appreciation for the life and struggles. An excellent read. Inga, to this day at 85, is a working artist in VA. George passed just in March of this year(2003). A great loss. Read this book.

This is a book about two people from two completely different places, that meet and fall in love. Later on in the book they are somewhat forbidden to see eachother, so then they end up having to sneak around to see eachother, finally after a while they are able to be together, and they lived happily ever after. I feel that this book teaches that you dont have to be alike, or come from the same places to love someone. I would say the age level for this book would probably be about 10. I do think that this is a good book.

Having recently read at least six biographies of Pocahontas, this is the only one that strives to speak from her heart. Of course, as the author acknowledges, who could know what she was really feeling of thinking at the time? Regardless, from her research, imagined friend of Pocahontas and empathic and humane sensibilities, Kudlinski offers a moving version of what drove a young girl to the acts and behaviors that so profoundly affected the Jamestown colony, Powhatan people and London. She includes some of the little known details of Pocahontas' visit to England and brings alive the smell, touch, taste, sound and spirit of the 17th century world. This was the one biography that was hard to put down because of the _story_. Not just reportage, but soulful.

Night And Light And The Half-Light is a new collection of poems by Henry George Fischer, who is Curator Emeritus of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Filled with literary and mythological allusions from Baudelaire to de Sade, these erudite verses combine wry humor with a holistic understanding of light, darkness, and their twilight mixture. Divided in three phases as the title suggests, Night And Light And The Half-Light is a compelling work that yearns to be read aloud, the better to savor the audible sensation of the subtle themes within.

I bought this to use in my 6th grade reading classroom. It is excellent to use to teach reading skills such as main idea, author's purpose, or summarizing. I put it in a center and students have 10 minutes to use the book for an assignment. Since it is at a lower reading level, students have success in building skills to use in higher level texts.

This book is a good addition to the grade 1-6 classroom library.

Real history, drama, music...No wonder my kids love to play this tape again and again.