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Bookmark or Share- Powhatan | American Indian Leader, Father of PocahontasPowhatan (died April 1618, Virginia [U.S.]) was a North American Indian leader, father of Pocahontas. He presided over the Powhatan empire at the time the English established the Jamestown Colony (1607). Powhatan bust. A bronze portrait of Powhatan at the Pamunkey Indian Reservation in Virginia.
- Powhatan - Pocahontas, Chief & Tribe - BiographyNative Americans. Powhatan. Chief Powhatan was the father of Pocahontas and the ruler of the tribes that lived in the area where English colonists founded the Jamestown settlement in 1607....
- Powhatan - WikipediaThe Powhatan people (/ ˌ p aʊ h ə ˈ t æ n, ˈ h æ t ən /;) are Native Americans who belong to member tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy, or Tsenacommacah. They are Algonquian peoples whose historic territories were in eastern Virginia. Their Powhatan language is an Eastern Algonquian language, also known as Virginia Algonquian.
- Powhatan (Native American leader) - WikipediaPowhatan (c. 1547 – c. 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh (alternately spelled Wahunsenacah, Wahunsunacock, or Wahunsonacock), was the leader of the Powhatan, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans living in Tsenacommacah, in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time when English settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607.
- Who were the Powhatan Indians and how did they live?The Powhatan Indians were a group of Eastern Woodland Indians who occupied the coastal plain of Virginia. They were sometimes referred to as Algonquians because of the Algonquian language they spoke and because of their common culture.
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