Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia. Powhatan People and the Color Line, Paperback/Laura J. Feller

Spanning a century of fraught history, this volume describes the critical strategic work that tidewater Virginia Indians, descendants of the seventeenth-century Algonquian Powhatan chiefdom, undertook to sustain their Native identity in the face of deep racial hostility from segregationist officials, politicians, and institutions. Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Author(s): Laura J. Feller Illustration(s): 3 b&w illus., 1 map, 2 tables Number of pages: 286 Publication date: 2024 Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 21 Cover type: Paperback