Authors describe the characteristics and traditions of each tribe and also the plants and animals native to each ecozone and essential components of the Indians' habitat and diet, demonstrating how these geographical and ecological differences shaped their cultural and daily everyday lives.
Mixing chronological narrative with a full ecological portrait, anthropologists Rountree and Davidson have reconstructed the culture and history ofVirginia's and Maryland's Eastern Shore Indians from a.d. 800 until the last tribesdisbanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
