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The weroance Chief Powhatan told Captain Smith about his Virginia Peninsula-based Powhatan Confederacy, and went on to say that he had wiped out the Roanoke colonists just prior to the arrival of the Jamestown settlers because they were living with the Chesepian, a tribe living in the eastern portion of the present-day South Hampton Roads sub-region who, besides having refused to join Chief Powhatan's Powhatan Confederacy, were also prophesied to rise up and destroy his empire.
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weroance and Chief
Each of the tribes within this organization had its own weroance ( chief ), but all paid tribute to Chief Powhatan.
The next day, while being entertained by a weroance at Arrahatec, the explorers were visited by Parahunt, whom by his title ( weroance Powhatan ), they mistook for his father, the paramount Chief Powhatan ( Wahunsunacawh, who actually resided at Werowocomoco ).
According to William Strachey, Chief Powhatan had slain the weroance at Kecoughtan in 1597, appointing his own young son Pochins as successor there, while resettling some of the tribe at the Piankatank River.
* Opechancanough, Chief Powhatan's younger brother, was a weroance of the Pamunkey, but increased in power, and came to be the effective ruler of the entire Powhatan Confederacy after Wahunsenacawh's death in 1618.
weroance and Powhatan
Edward Bland, an explorer who accompanied Abraham Wood's expedition in 1650, wrote that in Opechancanough's day, there had been a falling-out between the " Chawan " chief and the weroance of the Powhatan ( also a relative of Opechancanough's family ).
Until 1609, Parahunt, the weroance of the Powhatan tribe, had his main capital on a high hill overlooking the falls of the James, shown as a " king's house " on the 1608 John Smith map.
The shoreline region of Warrascoyack was then occupied by the Warraskoyak tribe of the Powhatan Confederacy, under their weroance, Tackinekintaco.
Each tribe of the Powhatan Confederacy was led by its own weroance.
The weroance Parahunt, son of paramount chief Powhatan, persuaded Captain Christopher Newport not to continue beyond the falls into Monacan country.
weroance and Captain
Captain John Smith's early map of Virginia testifies that the present area of Colonial Heights included the principal town of the Appamattuck subtribe, led by their weroance, Coquonasum, and his sister, Oppussoquionuske.
weroance and Smith
* Spring, 1609-Harassment by the Paspaheghs and other groups continues at the fort ; in one skirmish, John Smith, then President of the colony, captured the weroance, Wowinchapuncke.
weroance and they
In 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh sent Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore what is now the North Carolina coast, and they returned with word of a regional king ( weroance ) named Wingina, who ruled a land supposedly called Wingandacoa.
weroance and were
They were governed by a weroance, King Coquonosum, and by his sister, Queen Oppussoquionuske.
weroance and with
* May 4-While exploring the James River, the English party first make contact with the Paspahegh, enjoy a feast with them, and listen to, but are unable to understand, an oration by the Paspahegh weroance, Wowinchapuncke.
A few days later, two well-dressed and highly decorated Paspehegh messengers arrive at the fort to announce that their weroance would soon be paying them a visit, and bringing a " fat Deare " with him.
Chief and Powhatan
After 1570, the Algonquians consolidated under Chief Powhatan in response to threats from these other groups on their trade network.
* probable – Chief Powhatan ( proper name Wahunsenacawh ), father of Pocahontas ( b. c. 1547 )
* December ( early ) – Captain John Smith of the Jamestown Colony is captured by Opechancanough and then sent to Chief Powhatan for execution ; Pocahontas rescues him.
** Chief Powhatan, Algonquin chief ( d. 1620 )
* Pocahontas: Pocahontas, Meeko, Flit, John Smith, Governor Ratcliffe, Grandmother Willow, Chief Powhatan, Kekata, Wiggins, Thomas, and Nakoma.
Chief Powhatan reportedly produced several English-made iron implements to back his claim, but no bodies were found and no archaeological evidence has been found to support this claim, however, and that which was found at a Chesepian village site in Great Neck Point in present-day Virginia Beach suggests that the Chesepian tribe was related to the Pamlico in Carolina, rather than the Powhatans.
* The ceremonial cloak of Chief Powhatan
Werowocomoco was confirmed as a capital of Chief Powhatan in a later visit when Smith was accompanied by other Englishmen.
Residents named the County in honor of Chief Powhatan, paramount chief of the Powhatan Confederacy.
Like much of eastern Virginia, the site of Colonial Heights was located within the Algonquian-speaking confederation known as Tenakomakah, ruled by Chief Powhatan, when the English colonists arrived at Jamestown on May 14, 1607.
The city is named for Powhatan Ellis, a former U. S. Senator for Mississippi and descendant of Chief Powhatan, father of Pocahontas.
One report indicated that the survivors had taken refuge with friendly Chesapeake Indians, but Chief Powhatan claimed his tribe had attacked the group and killed most of the colonists.
Another legend relates that the name is derived from the name of the Iroquoian Chief Sherando ( Sherando was also the name of his people ), who fought against the Algonquian Chief Opechancanough, ruler of the Powhatan Confederacy ( 1618 – 1644 ).
In the local tribe in the New World, Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, dreads being possibly wed to Kocoum, a brave warrior whom she sees as too " serious " when conflicting with her spirited personality.
Chief Powhatan gives Pocahontas her mother's necklace as a present.
An enraged Chief Powhatan declares war on the crewmen, and Smith is to be executed at sunrise.
Chief and told
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