Manteo's World: Native American Life in Carolina's Sound Country Before and After the Lost Colony

Author/Contributor(s):	Rountree, Helen C
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	07/06/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Roanoke. Manteo. Wanchese. Chicamacomico. These place names along today's Outer Banks are a testament to the Indigenous communities that thrived for generations along the Carolina coast. Though most sources for understanding these communities were written by European settlers who began to arrive in the late sixteenth century, those sources nevertheless offer a fascinating record of the region's Algonquian-speaking people. Here, drawing on decades of experience researching the ethnohistory of the coastal mid-Atlantic, Helen Rountree reconstructs the Indigenous world the Roanoke colonists encountered in the 1580s"--