Head in Edward Nugent's Hand

Michael Leroy Oberg is SUNY Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Geneseo and the author of Professional Indian: The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

• PrologueChapter One: OssomocomuckChapter Two: GranganimeoChapter Three: WinginaChapter Four: A Killing, and Its ConsequencesChapter Five: VengeanceChapter Six: Lost Colonists, Lost IndiansEpilogueNotesIndex

"Michael Oberg sheds new light on one of the great stories in early American history. . . . He has tried to reconstruct the history of Roanoke not only from the view of colonists, who left all of the written records, but also from the view of the Native peoples of the region. The narrative is briskly paced and the research is thorough." (Peter C. Mancall, author of Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America) "[Oberg's] short, extremely readable work weaves together analyses of developments, causes, and effects with detailed views of the Native and English communities, cultures, leading personalities, and significant events, including their encounters along the Carolina coast. Oberg ends, fittingly and impressively, by tracing the surviving coastal Carolina Indian communities from the seventeenth into the twentieth century. This is an excellent book for U.S. history survey classes. . . . Highly recommended." (Choice)