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• Dragon Run: Strategy and Survival During Bacon’s Rebellion | 4th Grade | Virginia Studies

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Helpful Guides and Sources

• Bacon’s Rebellion Class and Race Interactive
  PBS Learning Media
• Bacon’s Rebellion Facts & Worksheets
  KidsKonnect
• Bacon’s Rebellion: Race, Land, and Rebellion in the Colonial South
  National Council for History Education
• Inventing Black and White
  Facing History and Ourselves
• Bacon’s Rebellion
  New Visions for Public Schools
• Adding Race Consciousness to the Slavery Curriculum
  Yale Teachers Institute
• The Declaration of the People against Sir William Berkeley and present Governours of Virginia.
  Bacon, Nathaniel
  Accessed via The Huntington Library
• Articles of Peace Between the Most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles II and Several Indian Kings and Queens
  “The Treaty of Middle Plantation” Transcription
  Stuart, Charles
  Accessed via Literature in Context
• Articles of Peace, 1677
  “Treaty of Middle Plantation”
  Accessed via Encyclopedia Virginia

• Encyclopedia Virginia
• Bacon’s Rebellion
• Bacon’s Rebellion in Memory
• Virginia Museum of History and Culture
• Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

• “The hidden story of Native tribes who outsmarted Bacon’s Rebellion”
  By Gregory S. Schneider
  The Washington Post, 2024
• Mapping the Dragon: An Indigenous History of Bacon’s Rebellion
  By Megan D. Postemski, Allyson Gray, Julia A. King, Edward D. Ragan, James D. Rice, G. Anne Richardson, Kendall Stevens, and Jeffrey W. Wright
  National Park Service, American Battlefield Protection Program, 2025
• “Cockacoeske’s Rebellion: Nathaniel Bacon, Indigenous Slavery, and Sovereignty in Early Virginia”
  By Hayley Negrin
  William & Mary Quarterly, 2023
• Native Knowledge 360: Life Along the River
  The Pamunkey Indian Tribe of Virginia
  Smithsonian Institution
• Characterization of the Water Resources of the Pamunkey River Watershed in Virginia—A Review of Water Science, Management, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
  U.S. Geological Survey, 2024
• America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2025
  Pamunkey Indian Reservation, King William, Virginia
  National Trust for Historic Preservation
• Indigenous Cultural Landscape Studies
  National Park Service
• Knowing the River, Working the Land, and Digging for Clay: Pamunkey Indian Subsistence Practices and the Market Economy 1800-1900
  Ashley Atkins Spivey
  Ph.D. Dissertation
  College of William and Mary, 2017
• Pamunkey Pottery and Cultural Persistence
  Ashley Atkins Spivey
  Master’s Thesis
  College of William and Mary, 2009
• Pamunkey Indian Tribe Website
• Pamunkey Museum Facebook Page
• Pamunkey Indian Tribe StoryMap
• Rappahannock Indian Tribe Virtual Museum Exhibits
• Rappahannock Indian Tribe Website

Tales from a Revolution: Bacon’s Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America.
By James D. Rice, Ph.D.
2012, Oxford University Press, New York.

Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America
By Matthew Kruer
2022, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.