My Lists
Featured Lists
Pocahontas
medicine woman, spy, entrepreneur, diplomat
By Allen, Paula Gunn
- ISBN
- 978-0-06053-687-9
- Publisher
- San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, c2003.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2003
Allen (English, emerita, UCLA) flaunts her Native American heritage in order to differentiate her "biography" of Pocahontas from those written by nonnatives. It is the native perspective that apparently gives her license to construct an image of Pocahontas as a "shaman-priestess, sorcerer, adept of high degree" without any cited evidence, unless one accepts a suppose...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
