Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat - Softcover

"Allen is a pathfinder."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Nothing less than a watershed event in the historiography of the Americas."--Carl Rollyson, The New York Sun

"Paula Gunn Allen, a pioneer of Native American literary studies, tells Pocahontas' story from the Indian perspective."--Oakland Tribune

[In] Ms. Allen's spirited revision, [she] insists that Pocahontas cannot be understood except within an Algonquin Indian context.--Wall Street Journal

"Allen's Pocahontas ... is a real visionary, a prodigiously gifted young woman ... made manifest by Allen's often lyrical and powerful writing."--Publishers Weekly

"This is not your typical biography. It couldn't be."--San Francisco Chronicle

A portrait of the Native American heroine draws on previously unavailable sources and documents her relationship with John Smith, efforts to bridge cultures, work alongside husband John Rolfe to establish a tobacco trade, and travel to Europe as an ambassador. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.