Powhatan materials, Phillips Fund Collection
Culture:
Language: English
Date: 1991-1992
Contributor: Gleach, Frederic W.
Subject: Missions | Politics and government | Trade | Virginia--History | Warfare
Type: Text
Genre: Dissertations
Extent: 335 pages
Description: The Powhatan materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 1 item, listed under "Gleach, Frederick": "English And Powhatan Approaches To Civilizing Each Other: A History Of Indian-White Relations In Early Colonial Virginia," a PhD thesis submitted to the University of Chicago (229 p.); report (2 p.); xeroxes of notes on archival materials from various libraries including the Newberry Library, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Anthropological Archives (104 p., xeroxed two to a page). Archival materials were gathered for the dissertation. The dissertation concerns various aspects of colonial relations between English colonizers and Powhatans (including war and trade), as well as Powhatan and Algonquian politics, cosmologies, and missionaries.
Collection: Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection Mss.497.3.Am4