Powhatan's Mantle : Indians in the Colonial Southeast

This book contains twelve original essays, which highlight new approaches and current work by leading historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists.

The contributors are Helen Hornbeck Tanner; Amy Turner Bushnell; Daniel Usner, Jr.; Stephen Potter; Patricia Galloway; James Merrell; Martha McCartney; Marvin Smith; Vernon James Knight, Jr.; and the editors, Peter Wood; Gregory A.

Waselkov; and M. Thomas Hatley, who also provided a preface and introductions to the book's three thematic sections (Geography and Population, Politics and Economics, Symbols and Society).Combining ethnohistory, archaeology, anthropology, cartography, and demography, "Powhatan's Mantle" is a provocative introduction to the dramatically changing world of southeastern Indians during the colonial era.

Peter Wood teaches history at Duke University and is the author of "Black Majority" (1974).

Gregory Waselkov, an expert in Indian archaeology, is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Alabama.

M. Thomas Hatley, an environmental historian, is executive director of the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development in New York.