Thank you Paul and Nancy for your help. I will check the Jamestown site. I
also found there is something useful on Native women in a journal in JSTOR,
but I have no idea how I could access it from home.
My stories (as some of you know) are personalized to the Reader. In this
story, the Reader will don his/her History Hat and arrive on the James River
between the Powhatan village and Jamestown in mid-summer of 1609. I know my
blackberries are ready usually around the 4th of July, but know nothing of
other berries. The Reader will arrive at sunup, and go west to the Powhatan
village, meet Pocahontas in the village garden picking summer squash for
breakfast. They will go to the village and help cook the squash and eat it,
then pack a basket full of dried corn and together carry it to Jamestown to
trade. The Reader will help Pocahontas make a good trade, perhaps getting
some fish hooks in addition to shiny beads, and maybe also a pot, and
perhaps a wooden toy. Since Pocahontas is 14-15 by then, and budding, she
will don a shirt given her by John Smith to wear in Jamestown so the men
don't say crude things to her. The Reader and Pocahontas will head back to
the village, stopping along the way to swim in the river, gather some rushes
to make baskets, and maybe catch a few fish with the new fish hooks and some
worms. They will continue back to the village, add the fish to the village
supplies for supper. Then they will play for awhile, with the other Indian
children.
I know that colonial children could have played hopscotch, but I'm not sure
what games, that a reader could recognize or understand, that the Indian
children would play. Dinner would be as the sun is going down, and after a
hearty stew of meat and roots, Reader would press the HOME button on his/her
History Hat and return to the current time.
If anyone sees hole or improvements on this outline, I hope they will say
so.
There will be music background to the story. I have already used Colors of
the Wind on another project, so I will be looking for something different. I
am open to suggestions. It should be in public domain and hopefully in midi
or MP3.
Thanks to any and all help, and an extra thanks to those who tell me where I
am tripping up.
Anne
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From: "Paul Finkelman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: Native American Culture
> lots of seafood (oysters, clams, crabs; and remember at this time there
> were elk, bison and probably moose in Va.
>
> Paul Finkelman
> President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
> and Public Policy
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> Folks,
>
> I am starting a new story for children and it will be about spending a
> day
> with Pocahontas in the summer of 1609. I believe Pocahontas would have
> been
> 14 or 15 by then, and John Smith still in the colony???
>
> I am wondering what young Native Americans drank with their meals.
> Water?
> Did the press juice from berries and fruit?
>
> Also, does anyone know if there was any husbandry among the Powhatans?
> Did
> they keep chickens for eggs? Gather eggs from ducks? Never eat eggs?
> Cook
> eggs hard or fried?
>
> I am, as you may recall, a long way from a library (and can no longer
> drive
> on the Interstate) and on limited means, so borrowing or buying books is
>
> tough. Following internet links to sources is my favorite way of doing
> research. Email addresses are also helpful, if you just know someone who
>
> knows.
>
> Thanks for any help on the Pocahontas' diet in the summer months.
>
> Anne
>
>
> Anne Pemberton
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