Powhatan
Sign in to saveAlso known as Powatan, Powhaten, Virginia Algonquians, Powhatan Confederacy
thumb| Powhatan (Native American leader)|Powhatan in a [[longhouse at Werowocomoco (detail of John Smith map, 1612)]]
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Powhatan people
- Ethnic group.regions
- Eastern Virginia
- Ethnic group.religions
- Indigenous religion, Christianity
- Ethnic group.languages
- Historically Powhatan, currently English
- Ethnic group.related
- Pamlico, Nanticoke, Lenape, Massachusett, and other Algonquian peoples
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Diaspora/ Migration of the Executive tribe Powhatan (Proper)
- Naming and terminology
- Early history
- Complex paramount chiefdom
- Powhatan builds his chiefdom
- English settlers in the land of the Powhatan
- Anglo-Powhatan Wars and treaties
- Changing society and English expansion
- Culture and lifeways
- Tribes of the paramount chiefdom and their territories
- 20th-century history
- Powhatan tribes today
- State-recognized tribes
- The Powhatan Nation of American Indians (Modern Registered Tribal Government of the core Powhatan Confederacy tribe The Powhatan (Proper).
- Federally recognized tribes
- Powhatan languages
- See also
- Notes
- Further reading
- External links
thumb| Powhatan (Native American leader)|Powhatan in a [[longhouse at Werowocomoco (detail of John Smith map, 1612)]]
Powhatan people () are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands who belong to member tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy, or Tsenacommacah. They are Algonquian peoples whose historic territories were in eastern Virginia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Powhatan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.