Camilla Townsend's Pocahontas And The Powhatan Dilemma

The novel, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, author, Camilla Townsend, a history professor at Colgate University has investigated through many written records from the seventeenth-century. During this time in history many things were written down in journals, maps were created and artifacts such as agricultural tool and body remains were left behind. Through these primary sources Townsend has written a biography that focuses on the life of America’s most influential female Indian, Pocahontas and some of her fellow Powhatan tribe members. She revealed how the impact of gaining independence in the New World was challenging, brutal and very conflicted. During this time, European and Native American’s both had the hopes of gaining individual