The True Story of Pocahontas

The True Story of PocahontasThe other side of history. For the first time in 400 years, the true story of Pocahontas is revealed by her own people. This important book shares the sacred and previously unpublished oral history of the Mattaponi tribe and their memories of 17th century Jamestown that have been passed down from generation to generation. Dr. Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow was born on the Mattaponi Reservation in West Point, the eldest son of Chief Daniel Webster

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and land—an affirmation that colonialism and capitalism must be overturned for this planet to be habitable for human and other-than-human relatives to live dignified lives

In addition to publicly accessible sites such as Wisconsin's Roche-a-Cri State Park and Minnesota's Jeffers Petroglyphs

Each section begins with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closes with emerging poets

" all of these works explore both what it means to be a woman and how those realities are complicated by the Native American experience

It is time for the West to confront an entirely separate

a must read for anyone interested in the Native American story

Readers will draw comfort

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