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CRRL Guest Picks: John Chinn, "Johnny Mac"

"I was born on the banks of the Rappahannock River. Taken Home to White Oak where I was raised and educated in the World's finest three-room university, White Oak School--now known as tribal member, artisan and historian D.P. Newton's Civil War Museum. Spent my time there with the other Patawomecks during World War Two getting lessons between the sounds of the big guns being tested at Dahlgren. They rattled the windows as the concussion came up through our Land. It was the sound of Freedom fighting back. We loved it. Attended Falmouth High and graduated from Stafford High. Graduated from a little Indian School in a place once known as Middle Plantation. Turned 78 nearly a year ago. Not much else to say, except, I am known as Johnny Mac."

Central Rappahannock Regional Library

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  • "You might say this could be the basis for an American Indian Mount Rushmore."
    Book, 1998Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1998. — 970.1 Wa
  • Facing East From Indian Country

    a Native History of Early America

    Richter, Daniel K.
    "Speaks to things that are avoided by our deliberately mistaught history."
    Book, 2003Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2003, 2001. — 970.1 Ri
  • God Is Red

    a Native View of Religion

    Deloria, Vine
    "Deloria was a deep thinker. Sadly gone."
    Book, 299.7 De
  • Indian Givers

    How Native Americans Transformed the World

    Weatherford, J. McIver
    "An eye-opener into things the American Indians contributed and have been suppressed by academia."
    Book, 2010New York, N.Y. : Three Rivers Press, 2010. — 970.1 We
  • No Word for Time

    the Way of the Algonquin People

    Pritchard, Evan T., 1955-
    "This book is my favorite. It is a nice story of the search for his heritage by Evan Pritchard. It reveals a lot of the unanswered questions about the American Indian. It is by an Algonquin speaker, Pritchard. I have reread this since it is a…
    Book, 2001San Francisco, California : Council Oak Books, 2001. — 970.3 Algon
  • "I heard this lady speak, along with Dr. Rountree, and was drawn to her by a final comment she made in an interview. When asked how she would describe the invasion of the English into Virginia and the East Coast, she answered, 'The Beginning of the…
    Book, 2004New York : Hill and Wang, [2004], ©2004. — 921 Pocah
  • Pocahontas's People

    the Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries

    Rountree, Helen C., 1944-
    "No history of the Virginia Indian can be told without the long and diligent research by Dr. Rountree. After Pocahontas, she is deserving of First Lady of Virginia status." Also available as an eBook.
    Book, 1990Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. — 970.4 Ro
  • Red Earth, White Lies

    Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact

    Deloria, Vine
    "Speaks to the dismissal, in a way, of the American Indians' thoughts."
    Book, 1997Golden, Colorado. : Fulcrum Pub., 1997. — 215 De