Commoners, Tribute, and Chiefs: The Development of Algonquian Culture in the Potomac Valley

By Stephen R. Potter

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813914221
• ISBN13: 9780813914220
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.3"