Presents a history of the Native American tribes of Southern Maryland, from the end of the Ice Age to the present, explaining how they have adapted to changing conditions--both climatic and human--throughout history. - (Baker & Taylor)

Here at last is the story of Southern Maryland’s Native people, from the end of the Ice Age to the present. Intended for a general audience, it explains how they have been adapting to changing conditions—both climatic and human—for all of that time in a way that is jargon-free and readable. The authors, cultural anthropologists with long experience of modern Indian people, convincingly demonstrate that all through their history, Native people have behaved like rational adults, contrary to the common stereotype of Indians. Moreover, in the very early Contact Period at least, some English settlers respected them accordingly. Unfortunately, although they never went to war against the English, they were driven nearly out of existence. Yet some of them refused to leave, and, adapting yet again to a changing world, their descendants are living successfully in Indian communities today.

Indians of Southern Maryland fills in the knowledge gaps between the contemporary indigenous people of Maryland, instructors and scholars, and the general public. The geographical area covered in this book includes the land between the lower Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay, encompassing Prince George’s, Charles, St. Mary’s, Calvert, and Anne Arundel counties, originally inhabited by the Patuxents, Piscataways, and other Algonquian-speaking tribes. Six chapters cover the topics of archaeology, traditional (at Contact) culture, the Protohistoric period, and the 17th-21st centuries. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - (Book News)

<p><b>New from the Maryland Historical Society, the story of Southern Maryland’s Native people.</b></p><p>Here at last is the story of Southern Maryland’s Native people, from the end of the Ice Age to the present. Intended for a general audience, it explains how they have been adapting to changing conditions—both climatic and human—for all of that time in a way that is jargon-free and readable. The authors, cultural anthropologists with long experience of modern Indian people, convincingly demonstrate that all through their history, Native people have behaved like rational adults, contrary to the common stereotype of Indians. Moreover, in the very early Contact Period at least, some English settlers respected them accordingly. Unfortunately, although they never went to war against the English, they were driven nearly out of existence. Yet some of them refused to leave, and, adapting yet again to a changing world, their descendants are living successfully in Indian communities today.</p> - (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Yet some of them refused to leave, and, adapting yet again to a changing world, their descendants are living successfully in Indian communities today. - (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Rebecca Seib is an applied anthropologist and has worked with Indian people throughout the United States for over 30 years. She has assisted Indian communities in rebuilding their economies in a culturally appropriate manner. Helen C. Rountree is professor emerita of anthropology at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She has been studying the Powhatan Indians in Virginia since 1969, with interests in the Algonquian-speaking Indians in adjacent states.