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    Powhatan (c. 1547 – c. 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh (alternately spelled Wahunsenacah, Wahunsunacock, or Wahunsonacock), was the leader...
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    Wahunsenacawh The Powhatan. Each of the tribes within the confederacy was led by a weroance (leader, commander), all of whom paid tribute to the Powhatan. After...
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  • This is a list of Native American leaders who participated in the American Indian Wars, which occurred throughout the early 17th century until the early...
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    thirteen he emigrated to the New World, and soon after lived with Powhatan (Native American leader) as an cultural emmissary from 1608 to 1610. Savage became...
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    Native Americans (also called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans) are the Indigenous peoples of the United States of America, particularly...
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    Opechancanough (category 17th-century Native American leaders)
    Powhatan Confederacy in present-day Virginia from 1618 until his death. He had been a leader in the confederacy formed by his older brother Powhatan,...
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    Native Americans a notable individuals who are Native Americans in the United States, including Alaska Natives and American Indians. Native American identity...
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    Native American religions, Native American faith or American Indian religions are the indigenous spiritual practices of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas...
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  • Look up Powhatan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Powhatan are a Native American tribe. Powhatan or Powhattan may also refer to: Powhatan, Arkansas...
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  • Wanchese (fl. 1585–1587) was the last known ruler of the Roanoke Native American tribe encountered by English colonists of the Roanoke Colony in the late...
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  • Thomas Rolfe (category American people of Powhatan descent)
    husband, John Rolfe. His maternal grandfather was Chief Powhatan, the leader of the Powhatan tribe in Virginia. Thomas Rolfe was born in the English colony...
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  • Indigenous or Native American in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Native Americans or Native American usually refers to Native Americans in the United...
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    Attanoughkomouck, and Attan-Akamik) is the name given by the Powhatan people to their native homeland, the area encompassing all of Tidewater Virginia and...
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  • Powhatan is a masculine given name. The best-known bearer of the name is Powhatan (Native American leader) (1545–1618), leader of the Powhatan tribe and...
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  • England. c. 1605: Chesapeake people are slain by order of Powhatan (Native American leader)[citation needed] April 10, 1606 (1606-04-10): Virginia Company...
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    Native American communities. Native American leaders campaigned with limited success to educate Native Americans about the dangers of drinking and intoxication...
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  • are Native American people – defined as Native American due to being affiliated with Native American communities and being culturally Native American –...
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    the mountains. About 30 Algonquian tribes were allied in the powerful Powhatan paramount chiefdom along the coast. During English colonization and the...
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    An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government...
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    not an eyewitness, wrote in his History of Virginia that warriors of the Powhatan "came unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other...
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    Native American civil rights are the civil rights of Native Americans in the United States. Native Americans are citizens of their respective Native nations...
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  • Totopotomoi (category Native American leaders)
    1615–1656) was a Native American leader from what is now Virginia. He served as the chief of Pamunkey and as werowance of the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom...
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  • Wanchese may refer to: Wanchese (Native American leader), Powhatan Roanoac chief encountered by colonists of the Roanoke Colony Wanchese, North Carolina...
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    Pocahontas (category People of the Powhatan Confederacy)
    Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial...
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  • human diseases. European infections and epidemics had major effects on Native American life in the colonial period and nineteenth century, especially. Afro-Eurasia...
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    Native American cultures across the 574 current federally recognized tribes in the United States, can vary considerably by language, beliefs, customs...
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    Tomocomo (category People of the Powhatan Confederacy)
    Uttamatomakkin (known as Tomocomo for short) was a Powhatan holy man who accompanied Pocahontas when she was taken to London in 1616. Little is known about...
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  • also called themselves the "Native American Party" and were referred to in the press with the capitalized term. In 1918, leaders of the Indigenous Peyote...
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    North America, Native American women had a role in society that contrasted with that of the settlers. Many women were leaders in Native American tribes...
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    The historical people were part of the Powhatan paramountcy, made up of Algonquian-speaking nations. The Powhatan paramount chiefdom was made up of over...
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