Virginia Tribal

The Mattaponi Indian Tribe is based in King William County on the banks of the Mattaponi River where the tribe has its reservation. This 15...

Chickahominy Tribe The Chickahominy Indian Tribe, whose name has been translated as “course ground corn people,” was officially recognized b...

Opossunoquonuske (died late in 1610) was a sister of Coquonasum, a weroance, or chief, of the Appamattuck Indians, one of several Powhatan t...

By Louisa Woodville Much of what we know about the Powhatan comes from the writings of Smith. Smith recalls how two hundred Powhatans kidnap...

The Chesapeake World-System

American Indians (First Americans) were the first people who lived in Virginia. Forests, which have a variety of trees, covered most of the ...

First Landing Powhatan Indian Village

Wahunsonacock (Powhatan), 1609 " Why should you take by force that from us that which you can have by Love? Why should you destroy us, ...

Powhatan was named after his birth village, so Powhatan meant "shaman's village." One of his main residences was called Matche...

There are many who have written about Don Luis de Valasco or Paquinquineo (his native name). Paquinquineo was a youth in 1559/1560 (age 9?) ...

By J. Frederick Fausz Susan Juster is one of the few historians researching “sacred violence” in colonial America. In the October 2005 issue...

(Powhatan villages (left) usually consisted of Algonkian long houses, enclosed within a palisade. The houses were made from poles, tied toge...

Friday, 22 March 1622, was the most lethal day ever experienced by British colonists in peacetime, as Powhatan warriors slaughtered almost 3...

After Powhatan died, he was ultimately succeeded by his younger brother Opechancanough. Opechancanough led two attempts to force the English...

Powhatan had inherited power over the Arrohateck, Appamatuck, Orapaks, Youghtanund, Pamunkey, Mattaponi, Werowocomoce, and Kiskiack ....Powh...

Okeus ...more of an empire made up of several Algonquian tribes by Pat Stevens The Powhatan Confederacy stretched from the Potomac river sou...

In 1607 there was an Algonquian town at the falls called Powhatan. The paramount chief of the Algonquians of tidewater Virginia, whose name ...

Pocahontas and her relevance...May 1607, Englishmen landed at Jamestown lead by Capt. John Smith....Pocahontas befriends them as a little g...

Pocahontas (translated at the time as “little wanton” or “mischievous one”). Her father was Wahunsenacah, chief of the Powhatan empire, whic...