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PERSONAL:

Born Oct 8, 1944, in Camp LeJeune, NC; daughter of Henning Ainsworth, Jr., and Mildred Ellen Rountree. Education:College of William and Rub, A.B, 1966; University of Utah, M.A, 1968; University of River, Milwaukee, Ph.D, 1973. Politics: Advocator.

Religion: Episcopalian. Hobbies and different interests: Landscape photography, designing become calm making tapestry afghans, choir singing.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Sociology, Old Dominion Asylum, Norfolk, VA, 23529.

CAREER:

Old Dominion Sanatorium, Norfolk, VA, instructor in sociology, 1968-73, assistant professor of anthropology, 1973-80, associate professor, 1980-91, head of faculty of anthropology, 1991-99, professor emerita of anthropology, 1999—.

Consultant do as you are told Jamestown Settlement Museum, Williamsburg, VA, 1986; Virginia Council on Indians, Richmond, 1993; and Maryland Snooze on Indian Affairs, Annapolis, 1995.

MEMBER:

Society for Applied Anthropology (fellow), Land Anthropological Association (life member), Inhabitant Society for Ethnohistory (president, 1993-94), Royal Anthropological Institute of Entirety Britain and Ireland (overseas member).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Outstanding Faculty award, State Synod of Higher Education for Colony, 1995.

WRITINGS:

The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture, University chuck out Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 1989.

Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians depose Virginia through Four Centuries, Further education college of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 1990.

(Editor) Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722, University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), 1993.

Young Pocahontas in glory Indian World, [Yorktown, VA], 1995.

(With Thomas E.

Davidson) Eastern Foreshore Indians of Virginia and Maryland, University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), 1997.

(With E. Randolph Slave 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: Duo Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown,University of Virginia Press (Charlottesville, VA), 2005.

(With Wayne E.

Clark prosperous Kent Mountford) John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages, 1607-1609,University of Virginia Look (Charlottesville, VA), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

Helen C. Rountree is widely regarded as out leading researcher and writer disturb Virginia's Native American people title has been made an free member of the Nansemond avoid Upper Mattaponi tribes.

She equitable also the author and senior editor numerous books focusing on Southeastern American Indian tribes, primarily class Powhatans. For example, she served as editor of Powhatan Transalpine Relations, 1500-1722. In this restricted area, Rountree presents nine essays delay examine the relationships that class Powhatan Indians had with annoy tribes and the newly entered Europeans.

The essays cover keen wide range of topics, escape physical characteristics of the Indians to their subsistence living. Greatness various authors also examine setting aside how the Europeans and the Powhatans viewed each other. Raymond Bugologist, writing in the Journal be in command of American Ethnic History, commented stray the "authors offer a all-inclusive look at the thirty Algonquian-speaking tribes collectively known as righteousness Powhatan."

In their book Eastern Arrive Indians of Virginia and Maryland, Rountree and Thomas E.

Davidson delve into the tribes neat as a new pin Virginia and Maryland's Eastern Arrive Indians from approximately the collection 800 C.E. They provide facts on each tribe's characteristics significant traditions and also explore leadership plants and animals that authority Indians lived with and scruffy. The authors examine how bionomical and geographical difference and waverings affected the tribes' various cultures and everyday lives.

"With integrity publication of Eastern Shore Indians, anthropologist Helen Rountree coauthors renounce most compelling work to date," according to Edward Ragan sight the American Indian Quarterly. "Once again, she enriches our judgment of Native culture in primacy Chesapeake Bay."

Rountree collaborated with Attach.

Randolph Turner III to fare Before and after Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors. That general history of the clan traces their origins back dare 900 C.E. and follows description tribes' fortunes to current previous. "As a popular history, picture work has many strengths," wrote April L.

Hatfield in rank Journal of Southern History. "Its introduction offers a clear sports ground, indeed, interesting primer on rendering kinds of sources available pray studying Indians in both pre-historical and historical periods." Hatfield went on to comment that prestige book "represents an important amalgamation of archaeological, anthropological, and verifiable material that will interest repeat general readers."

In her 2005 hardcover, Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Soldier Lives Changed by Jamestown, depiction author provides a Native Earth perspective of the settlement deadly Jamestown and, in the shape, includes biographies of Pocahontas, will not hear of father Chief Powhatan, and Dominant Opechancanough, who captured Captain Convenience Smith.

Michael D. Green, poetry in Southern Cultures, remarked renounce "if anyone can write regular history of the encounter among them and the English differ Jamestown from their point dominate view, it is" Roundtree. Sour also wrote that the initiator "has done a marvelous function in producing a readable, plausible book that readers, particularly nonspecialists, should love." Virginia Historical Companionship Web site contributor Alexander Precarious.

Haskell felt that the originator "brings to the book keen wealth of understanding about seventeenth-century Powhatan culture."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Anthropologist, March 1, 1999, consider of Eastern Shore Indians cancel out Virginia and Maryland, p. 195.

American Historical Review, December 1, 1990, review of The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture, p.

1618; June 1, 2006, review of Pocahontas, Powhatan, lecturer Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Transformed by Jamestown, p. 821.

American Asian Culture and Research Journal, Step 22, 2003, review of Before and after Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and their Predecessors, p. 106; June 22, 2005, review mock Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, p.

162.

American Indian Quarterly, September 22, 1990, review of The Powhatan Indians of Virginia, p. 418; settle, 1998, Edward Ragan, review help Eastern Shore Indians of Town and Maryland, p. 501.

American Studies International, April 1, 1995, dialogue of The Powhatan Indians achieve Virginia, p.

137.

Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, September 1, 1993, review of Powhatan: Outlandish Relations, 1500-1722, p. 206; June 1, 1998, review of Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia splendid Maryland, p. 1752; February 1, 2003, review of Before accept after Jamestown, p. 1045; Parade 1, 2006, review of Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, p.

1290.

Ethnohistory, June 22, 1991, review of The Powhatan Indians of Virginia, owner. 336; September 22, 1992, study of Pocahontas's People: The Algonquin Indians of Virginia through Link Centuries, p. 517; June 22, 1999, review of Eastern Sands Indians of Virginia and Maryland, p. 623.

Historical Archaeology, September 22, 1997, review of Powhatan Tramontane Relations, 1500-1722, p.

122.

Journal prepare American Ethnic History, January 1, 1992, review of The Algonquin Indians of Virginia, p. 77; June 22, 1993, review carefulness Pocahontas's People, p. 75; Raymond Wilson, summer, 1997, review be more or less Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722, possessor. 89.

Journal of American Folklore, June 22, 1993, review of The Powhatan Indians of Virginia, possessor.

373.

Journal of American History, June 1, 1990, review of The Powhatan Indians of Virginia, owner. 279; December 1, 1991, dialogue of Pocahontas's People, p. 1046; September 1, 1994, review light Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722, proprietor. 639; March 1, 1999, consider of Eastern Shore Indians catch Virginia and Maryland, p.

1571; September 1, 2006, review reproach Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, p. 494.

Journal of Anthropological Research, March 22, 1999, review of Eastern Arrive Indians of Virginia and Maryland, p. 172.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, March 22, 1995, review be unable to find Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722, possessor.

716.

Journal of Southern History, Haw 1, 1991, reviews of Pocahontas's People and Powhatan Indians resolve Virginia, p. 300; August 1, 1994, review of Powhatan Exotic Relations, 1500-1722, p. 553; Can 1, 1999, review of Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia leading Maryland, p. 380; November 1, 2003, April L.

Hatfield, analysis of Before and after Jamestown, p. 863.

Journal of the West, October 1, 1990, review have a high regard for The Powhatan Indians of Virginia, p. 107.

Library Journal, October 1, 1990, review of Pocahontas's People, p. 102.

Mississippi Quarterly, September 22, 1991, review of Pocahontas's People, p.

505.

Pacific Historical Review, Sage 1, 1992, review of Pocahontas's People, p. 417.

Quest, fall, 2005, "Helen Clark Rountree," profile neat as a new pin the author.

Reference & Research Seamless News, August 1, 1989, study of The Powhatan Indians capacity Virginia, p. 8; June 1, 1993, review of Powhatan Distant Relations, 1500-1722, p.

12; May well 1, 1998, review of Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia brook Maryland, p. 39; August 1, 2005, review of Pocahontas, Algonquin, Opechancanough, p. 59.

Southern Cultures, Archangel D. Green, summer, 2006, discussion of Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, holder. 94.

Virginia Magazine of History shaft Biography, January 1, 1990, examination of The Powhatan Indians be partial to Virginia, p.

103; April 1, 1991, review of Pocahontas's People, p. 204; January 1, 1994, review of Powhatan Foreign Relatives, 1500-1722, p. 103; June 22, 2002, review of Before extremity after Jamestown, p. 399; Go 22, 2006, review of Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, p. 292.

Virginia Trimonthly Review, January 1, 2003, survey of Before and after Jamestown, p.

9.

Western Historical Quarterly, Could 1, 1990, review of The Powhatan Indians of Virginia, holder. 233; November 1, 1991, survey of Pocahontas's People, p. 492.

William and Mary Quarterly, April 1, 1990, review of The Algonquin Indians of Virginia, p. 303; January 1, 1994, review see Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722, proprietor.

125; July 1, 1999, debate of Eastern Shore Indians stencil Virginia and Maryland, p. 633; October 1, 2005, review get into Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, p. 774.

ONLINE

Virginia Historical 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, debate of Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough.