Cockacoeske
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Cockacoeske (pronounced Coke a cow ski) (also spelled Cockacoeskie) () was a 17th-century weroansqua of the Pamunkey tribe in what is now the U.S. state of Virginia. During her thirty-year reign, she worked with the English colony of Virginia, trying to recapture the former power of past paramount chiefs and maintain peaceful unity among the several tribes under her leadership. She was the first of the tribal leaders to sign the Virginia-Indian Treaty of Middle Plantation. In 2004 Cockacoeske was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History".
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- traditional leader or chief
- Noble title
- queen regnant
- Image
- Cockacoeske.jpg
- Residence
- Virginia
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- date of birth
- 1640-00-00
- ethnic group
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- date of death
- 1686-01-01
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- www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/classified-index.asp
- Commons category
- Cockacoeske
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Early life and rule
- Treaty of Middle Plantation
- Descendants and succession
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Cockacoeske (pronounced Coke a cow ski) (also spelled Cockacoeskie) () was a 17th-century weroansqua of the Pamunkey tribe in what is now the U.S. state of Virginia. During her thirty-year reign, she worked with the English colony of Virginia, trying to recapture the former power of past paramount chiefs and maintain peaceful unity among the several tribes under her leadership. She was the first of the tribal leaders to sign the Virginia-Indian Treaty of Middle Plantation. In 2004 Cockacoeske was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History".
==Early life and rule== The death of Opechancanough in 1646 led to the disintegration of the confederacy built by his brother Powhatan. Cockacoeske's husband Totopotomoi became leader in 1649, but English colonists in Virginia only referred to him the "king of the Pamunkeys," not "king of the Indians," as they had earlier paramount chiefs. Totopotomoi was killed in what was later called the Battle of Bloody Run, while fighting alongside the Virginia militia against migrating Westo Indians.
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