Powhatan

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• Powhatan chiefs and priests appear to have sensed an immediate threat to their power and influence in English preaching.

  Academic text (1992)

• Powhatan may have allowed colonists to survive because he saw them as a source of worked copper, for example.

  Academic text (2006)

• 37 The Powhatan paramount chiefdom's primary objectives before the English arrived had been more military than religious anyway.

  Academic text (1992)

• Thus, for the ambitious English leadership, the Powhatan chiefs were "tyrants," while for the chiefs, the English leaders were usurpers.

  Academic text (1992)

• PHOTO (COLOR): Martin Gallivan was able to locate Werowocomoco, the seat of Chief Powhatan, with the help of 17th-century maps.

  Academic text (2006)

• Martin Gallivan, the William and Mary professor who has found the principal residence of Chief Powhatan from 1607 to 1609, Werowocomoco, is one of these.

  Academic text (2006)

• Powhatan chiefs apparently had only a circumscribed ability to restrain their people's trade, in spite of their supposedly life-and-death power.

  Academic text (1992)

• As the leader of the Powhatan Confederacy, Chief Powhatan played a crucial role in the early interactions between Native Americans and English settlers.

• The descendants of Powhatan continue to honor his legacy and traditions at annual cultural festivals.

• Many stories have been told about Powhatan, the father of Pocahontas, and his leadership during a pivotal time in American history.

Synonyms

W

Wahunsonacock

vsPowhatan

9.9

A Native American chief who founded the Powhatan tribes in eastern Virginia and was Pocahontas's father

has identical meaning but uses the anglicized name

Compounds

P

Powhatan language

9.9

An extinct Native American language once spoken in eastern Virginia

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Etymology