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On Monday, August 29 at 12:30 am
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2005 Virginia Festival of the Book: American Indians in Virginia Panel

From the 11th annual Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, Virginia, a discussion on American Indians in Virginia. Panelists are Stephen Adkins, Chickahominy tribal chief; Paul Gunn Allen, author of "Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat"; Helen Rountree, author of "Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown"; and Camilla Townsend, author of "Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma." The panel is introduced by David Bearinger and moderated by Suzan Shown Harjo -- both of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

Stephen Adkins is Chief of the Chickahominy Indian tribe. Paula Gunn Allen is professor emerita at UCLA. She has written critical studies, essays, poetry, and a novel. Helen Rountree is an expert on the Algonquian-speaking Indians of the Southeast. She is the author of "Powhatan Foreign Relations" and (with Thomas Davidson) "Eastern Shore Indians of Virgina and Maryland." Camilla Townsend is a history professor at Colgate University.