Research Guides: Indigenous Peoples of Land Now Known as Maryland: Books

Selected Books

At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier by Merritt, Jane
Call Number: E78.P4M47 2003

ISBN: 0807827894

LOCATIONS: Hornbake Library Maryland Room Maryland Stacks
McKeldin Library
This is an examination of the interaction between Native Americans and whites in eighteenth century Pennsylvania, tracing the emergence of race as the defining difference between these neighbors. It considers the breakdown of relations between the two groups after the Seven Years' War.
Chesapeake prehistory : old traditions, new directions by Dent, Richard A.
Call Number: E78.M3D45 1995

ISBN: 0306450283

LOCATIONS: Hornbake Library Maryland Room Maryland Stacks
McKeldin Library Stacks
A comprehensive synthesis of the archaeological record of the Chesapeake region.
Commoners, tribute, and chiefs : the development of Algonquian culture in the Potomac Valley by Potter, Stephen R.
Call Number: E99.A35P67 1993

ISBN: 0813914221

LOCATIONS: Hornbake Library Maryland Room Maryland Stacks
McKeldin Library Stacks
When Captain John Smith explored the Potomac River in 1608, it was a frontier between two of the most politically complex Indian cultures in the Middle Atlantic region - the Conoy chiefdom of southern Maryland and the Powhatan chiefdom of eastern Virginia. Some of these diverse Algonquian-speaking peoples acknowledged the overlordship of the Piscataways, the largest group of the Conoys, others acknowledged no ruler greater than their own. The rise and fall of these polities is the subject of Commoners, Tribute, and Chiefs.
Dominion and Civility by Michael L. Oberg
Call Number: E78.N5 O34 1999

ISBN: 0801435641

Publication Date: 1999-05-27

LOCATIONS: Hornbake Library Maryland Room Maryland Stacks
McKeldin Library Stacks
Was the relationship between English settlers and Native Americans in the New World destined to turn tragic? This book investigates how the newcomers interacted with Algonquian groups in the Chesapeake Bay area and New England, describing the role that original Americans occupied in England's empire during the critical first century of contact.
Early American Indian documents : treaties and laws, 1607-1789 by Vaughan, Alden T.
Call Number: KF8202 1979 v.6

ISBN: 0890931801
LOCATIONS: Hornbake Library Maryland Room Maryland Stacks
McKeldin Library Stacks
- Volume 6, Maryland Treaties, 1762-1775 (available at both Hornbake and McKeldin)
- Volume 15, Virginia and Maryland Laws (only available at McKeldin)
Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland by Helen C. Rountree; Thomas E. Davidson
Call Number: E78.V7 R68 1997

ISBN: 0813917344

Publication Date: 1997-12-29

LOCATIONS: Hornbake Library Maryland Room Maryland Stacks
McKeldin Library Stacks
Authors describe the characteristics and traditions of each tribe and also the plants and animals native to each ecozone and essential components of the Indians' habitat and diet, demonstrating how these geographical and ecological differences shaped their cultural and daily everyday lives.
Indian and European Contact in Context: The Mid-Atlantic Region by Blanton, Dennis B. and Julia A King
Call Number: E78.M65I63 2004

ISBN: 0813027802

LOCATIONS: Hornbake Library Maryland Room Maryland Stacks
McKeldin Library Stacks
This book covers contact of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans in the Mid-Atlantic region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; however, two chapters feature areas in Maryland.
Indians of Southern Maryland by Helen C. Rountree; Rebecca Seib
Call Number: E99.C873 S45 2014

ISBN: 9780984213573

Publication Date: 2015

LOCATION: Hornbake Library Maryland Room Maryland Stacks
Here at last is the story of Southern Maryland's Native people, from the end of the Ice Age to the present. Intended for a general audience, it explains how they have been adapting to changing conditions-both climatic and human-for all of that time in a way that is jargon-free and readable. The authors, cultural anthropologists with long experience of modern Indian people, convincingly demonstrate that all through their history, Native people have behaved like rational adults, contrary to the common stereotype of Indians. Moreover, in the very early Contact Period at least, some English settlers respected them accordingly. Unfortunately, although they never went to war against the English, they were driven nearly out of existence. Yet some of them refused to leave, and, adapting yet again to a changing world, their descendants are living successfully in Indian communities today.
Landfall Along the Chesapeake by Schmidt, Susan
Call Number: F187.C5S37 2006

LOCATION: Hornbake Library Maryland Stacks
"In 2002, Susan Schmidt retraced John Smith's 1608 voyage on the Chesapeake Bay. In Landfall along the Chesapeake, a cruising guide for Chesapeake boaters and a field log for naturalists, Schmidt compares the beauty of ancestral legacy and childhood memory to her observations on a 100-day voyage in a 22-foot boat."
Nature & History in the Potomac Country by Rice, James D.
Call Number: GE155.P68R53 2009

ISBN: 9780801890321

LOCATION: Hornbake Library Maryland Room Maryland Stacks
A study of the interplay of Indians, Europeans, and the environment in Potomac Valley history.
Also available as an e-book to University of Maryland faculty, staff, students and on-campus visitors.
Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722 by Helen C. Rountree (Editor)
Call Number: E99.P85P683 1993

ISBN: 0813914094

Publication Date: 1993-01-01

LOCATIONS: Hornbake Library Maryland Room Maryland Stacks
McKeldin Library Stacks
An authority on the history and anthropology of the 30 Algonquian-speaking Indian tribes known as the Powhatans of Virginia, Helen C. Rountree has assembled a group of contributors with the aim of providing a multifaceted look at these diverse and fascinating peoples. Powhatan Foreign Relations examines the Powhatan paramount chiefdom and its Indian foreigners from the perspectives of physical anthropology, archaeology, history and cultural anthropology.
Race and Class in Colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen, and Africans on the Eastern Shore during the seventeenth century by J. Douglas Deal
Call Number: F232.E2 D43 1993

ISBN: 0815311923

Publication Date: 1993

LOCATION: McKeldin Library Stacks