"[Dr. Gunn Allen] helps us get past the merely ethnic to the value of the stories as works of art." - Ursula K. Le Guin, New York Times Book Review
"Allen's Pocahontas ... is a real visionary, a prodigiously gifted young woman ... made manifest by Allen's often lyrical and powerful writing." - Publishers Weekly
[In] Ms. Allen's spirited revision, [she] insists that Pocahontas cannot be understood except within an Algonquin Indian context. - Wall Street Journal
"This is not your typical biography. It couldn't be." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Nothing less than a watershed event in the historiography of the Americas." - Carl Rollyson, The New York Sun
"Allen is a pathfinder." - Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Paula Gunn Allen, a pioneer of Native American literary studies, tells Pocahontas' story from the Indian perspective." - Oakland Tribune

Publisher: HarperOne

Pub date: 2004-10-05

Length: 352 pages