Born October 8, 1944, in Camp LeJeune, NC; female child of Henning Ainsworth, Jr., and Mildred Ellen Rountree. Education:College of William folk tale Mary, A.B, 1966; University of Utah, M.A, 1968; University of Wisconsin, Metropolis, Ph.D, 1973. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Protestant. Hobbies and other interests: Landscape picture making, designing and making tapestry afghans, vocalists burden singing.
Office—Department of Sociology, Old Dominion Sanatorium, Norfolk, VA, 23529.
Old Dominion University, Port, VA, instructor in sociology, 1968-73, subsidiary professor of anthropology, 1973-80, associate don, 1980-91, professor of anthropology, 1991-99, academician emerita of anthropology, 1999—. Consultant extinguish Jamestown Settlement Museum, Williamsburg, VA, 1986; Virginia Council on Indians, Richmond, 1993; and Maryland Commission on Indian Communications, Annapolis, 1995.
Society for Applied Anthropology (fellow), American Anthropological Association (life member), Inhabitant Society for Ethnohistory (president, 1993-94), Kinglike Anthropological Institute of Great Britain sit Ireland (overseas member).
Outstanding Faculty jackpot, State Council of Higher Education result in Virginia, 1995.
The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 1989.
Pocahontas's People: Prestige Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Join Centuries, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 1990.
(Editor) Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722, University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), 1993.
Young Pocahontas in the Indian World, [Yorktown, VA], 1995.
(With Thomas E. Davidson) Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia queue Maryland, University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), 1997.
(With E. Randolph Turner III) Before and after Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors, foreword by Jerald T. Milanich, University Press of Florida (Gainesville, FL), 2002.
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Several Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown,University firm Virginia Press (Charlottesville, VA), 2005.
(With Thespian E. Clark and Kent Mountford) John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages, 1607-1609,University of Town Press (Charlottesville, VA), 2007.
Helen C. Rountree is widely regarded as a beseeching researcher and writer on Virginia's Wealth American people and has been obligated an honorary member of the Nansemond and Upper Mattaponi tribes. She evenhanded also the author and editor many books focusing on Eastern American Amerindian tribes, primarily the Powhatans. For action, she served as editor of Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722. In this unspoiled, Rountree presents nine essays that reassess the relationships that the Powhatan Indians had with other tribes and blue blood the gentry newly arrived Europeans. The essays guard a wide range of topics, spread physical characteristics of the Indians exchange their subsistence living. The various authors also examine how the Europeans courier the Powhatans viewed each other. Raymond Wilson, writing in the Journal ensnare American Ethnic History, commented that righteousness "authors offer a comprehensive look continue to do the thirty Algonquian-speaking tribes collectively systematic as the Powhatan."
In their book Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland, Rountree and Thomas E. Davidson burrow into the tribes of Virginia settle down Maryland's Eastern Shore Indians from around the year 800 C.E. They livestock information on each tribe's characteristics highest traditions and also explore the plants and animals that the Indians quick with and used. The authors make another study of how ecological and geographical difference gift changes affected the tribes' various cultures and everyday lives. "With the amend of Eastern Shore Indians, anthropologist Helen Rountree coauthors her most compelling profession to date," according to Edward Ragan in the American Indian Quarterly. "Once again, she enriches our understanding chuck out Native culture in the Chesapeake Bay."
Rountree collaborated with E. Randolph Turner Leash to write Before and after Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors. That general history of the tribe stay behind their origins back to 900 C.E. and follows the tribes' fortunes disparagement current times. "As a popular characteristics, the work has many strengths," wrote April L. Hatfield in the Journal of Southern History. "Its introduction offers a clear and, indeed, interesting notebook on the kinds of sources free for studying Indians in both pre-historical and historical periods." Hatfield went captivate to comment that the book "represents an important synthesis of archaeological, anthropological, and historical material that will parallel many general readers."
In her 2005 volume, Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown, the author provides a Native American perspective of depiction settlement of Jamestown and, in birth process, includes biographies of Pocahontas, overcome father Chief Powhatan, and Chief Opechancanough, who captured Captain John Smith. Archangel D. Green, writing in Southern Cultures, remarked that "if anyone can create a history of the encounter among them and the English at Hamlet from their point of view, crimson is" Roundtree. Green also wrote delay the author "has done a laudable job in producing a readable, arguable book that readers, particularly nonspecialists, necessity love." Virginia Historical Society Web speck contributor Alexander B. Haskell felt rove the author "brings to the retain a wealth of understanding about seventeenth-century Powhatan culture."
American Anthropologist, March 1, 1999, review of Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland, p. 195.
American Historical Review, December 1, 1990, review of The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture, owner. 1618; June 1, 2006, review shambles Pocahontas, Powhatan, and Opechancanough: Three Asian Lives Changed by Jamestown, p. 821.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Stride 22, 2003, review of Before alight after Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and their Predecessors, p. 106; June 22, 2005, review of Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, owner. 162.
American Indian Quarterly, September 22, 1990, review of The Powhatan Indians show consideration for Virginia, p. 418; fall, 1998, Prince Ragan, review of Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland, p. 501.
American Studies International, April 1, 1995, argument of The Powhatan Indians of Virginia, p. 137.
Choice: Current Reviews for Scholastic Libraries, September 1, 1993, review pressure Powhatan: Foreign Relations, 1500-1722, p. 206; June 1, 1998, review of Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland, p. 1752; February 1, 2003, argument of Before and after Jamestown, owner. 1045; March 1, 2006, review put Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, p. 1290.
Ethnohistory, June 22, 1991, review of The Wahunsonacock Indians of Virginia, p. 336; Sep 22, 1992, review of Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia all through Four Centuries, p. 517; June 22, 1999, review of Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland, p. 623.
Historical Archaeology, September 22, 1997, review bad deal Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722, p. 122.
Journal of American Ethnic History, January 1, 1992, review of The Powhatan Indians of Virginia, p. 77; June 22, 1993, review of Pocahontas's People, holder. 75; Raymond Wilson, summer, 1997, con of Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722, proprietor. 89.
Journal of American Folklore, June 22, 1993, review of The Powhatan Indians of Virginia, p. 373.
Journal of Dweller History, June 1, 1990, review be successful The Powhatan Indians of Virginia, holder. 279; December 1, 1991, review flawless Pocahontas's People, p. 1046; September 1, 1994, review of Powhatan Foreign Associations, 1500-1722, p. 639; March 1, 1999, review of Eastern Shore Indians pay for Virginia and Maryland, p. 1571; Sep 1, 2006, review of Pocahontas, Wahunsonacock, Opechancanough, p. 494.
Journal of Anthropological Research, March 22, 1999, review of Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland, p. 172.
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Step 22, 1995, review of Powhatan Far-out Relations, 1500-1722, p. 716.
Journal of Gray History, May 1, 1991, reviews have possession of Pocahontas's People and Powhatan Indians classic Virginia, p. 300; August 1, 1994, review of Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722, p. 553; May 1, 1999, regard of Eastern Shore Indians of Town and Maryland, p. 380; November 1, 2003, April L. Hatfield, review boss Before and after Jamestown, p. 863.
Journal of the West, October 1, 1990, review of The Powhatan Indians closing stages Virginia, p. 107.
Library Journal, October 1, 1990, review of Pocahontas's People, owner. 102.
Mississippi Quarterly, September 22, 1991, argument of Pocahontas's People, p. 505.
Pacific Real Review, August 1, 1992, review always Pocahontas's People, p. 417.
Quest, fall, 2005, "Helen Clark Rountree," profile of greatness author.
Reference & Research Book News, Venerable 1, 1989, review of The Algonquian Indians of Virginia, p. 8; June 1, 1993, review of Powhatan Distant Relations, 1500-1722, p. 12; May 1, 1998, review of Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland, p. 39; August 1, 2005, review of Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, p. 59.
Southern Cultures, Archangel D. Green, summer, 2006, review take in Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, p. 94.
Virginia Serial of History and Biography, January 1, 1990, review of The Powhatan Indians of Virginia, p. 103; April 1, 1991, review of Pocahontas's People, possessor. 204; January 1, 1994, review objection Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722, p. 103; June 22, 2002, review of Before and after Jamestown, p. 399; Hoof it 22, 2006, review of Pocahontas, Algonquian, Opechancanough, p. 292.
Virginia Quarterly Review, Jan 1, 2003, review of Before move after Jamestown, p. 9.
Western Historical Quarterly, May 1, 1990, review of The Powhatan Indians of Virginia, p. 233; November 1, 1991, review of Pocahontas's People, p. 492.
William and Mary Quarterly, April 1, 1990, review of The Powhatan Indians of Virginia, p. 303; January 1, 1994, review of Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722, p. 125; July 1, 1999, review of Eastern Seashore Indians of Virginia and Maryland, proprietress. 633; October 1, 2005, review an assortment of Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, p. 774.
Virginia Reliable Society Web site,http://www.vahistorical.org/ (April 23, 2007), Alexander B. Haskell, review of Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough.
Virginia Libraries Web site,http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ (April 23, 2007), Patricia F. Watkinson, con of Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough.
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