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	Pocahontas
		Chief Powhatan was the supreme ruler, Chief of the 32 tribe Powatan Confederacy which were well organized and a thriving agricultural and fishing nation located around the Chesapeake Bay where the Virginia Company landed.
		Chief Powhatan was about 60, tall well proportioned with slightly gray hair, when the colonists arrived.
		Chief Powhatan orders the massacre of 60 settlers visiting Werowocomoco in Autumn 1609 and Pocahontas is sent to live with the Patawomeke tribe.
	www.waltm.net /pocahon1.htm (1334 words)

	Powhatan Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Although early interactions between the English and the Powhatans was sometimes violent and exploitive on both sides, leaders of both peoples realized the mutual benefit to be derived from peaceful relations.
		However, with the death of Pocahontas in 1617 and the death of Powhatan a year later, the peace came to an end.
		By 1669, the population of Powhatan Indians in the area had dropped to about 1,800 and by 1722, many of the tribes comprising the empire of Chief Powhatan were reported extinct.
	www.baydreaming.com /powhatan.htm (311 words)

	Gloucester History: Chief Powhatan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Powhatan, was the father of POCAHONTAS and an intimate friend of Captain John Smith and John Rolfe.
		At the time of the English settlement of Jamestown (1607), Powhatan was consolidating 30 or more tribes of the confederacy from his capital, Werowocomoco, on the Pamunkey River, land which later became Gloucester and Mathews Counties.
		Powhatan was initially friendly to the English colonists, but upon learning that John Smith was interested in metals and in finding a waterway leading to the western ocean, Powhatan perceived the English as dangerous and decided to remove them from his territory.
	www.co.gloucester.va.us /powha1.htm (164 words)

	Powhatan Summary
		Powhatan was the son of a chief reportedly driven from Florida by the Spaniards.
		Powhatan was also the original name of the town that Wahunsunacock (the Chief Powhatan) came from (today the site of Richmond, Virginia), as well as the name of the river where it sat (today called the James River).
		Powhatan County was named in honor of the Chief and his tribe, although located about 60 miles to the west of lands ever under their control.
	www.bookrags.com /Powhatan (2529 words)

	Powhatan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten), or Powhatan Renape (literally, the "Powhatan Human Beings"), is the name of a Native American tribe, and also the name of a powerful confederacy of tribes that they dominated.
		Powhatan was also the original name of the town that Wahunsunacock (the Chief Powhatan) came from (today the site of Richmond, Virginia), as well as the name of the river where it sat (today called the James River).
		Powhatan County was named in honor of the Chief and his tribe, although located about 60 miles to the west of lands ever under their control.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Powhatan (735 words)

	POWHATAN CONFEDERACY. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wahunsonacock, or Powhatan, as the English called him, was the leader of the confederacy when Jamestown was settled in 1607.
		The Powhatan are said to have been driven N to Virginia by the Spanish, where their chief, Powhatan’s father, subjugated five other Virginia tribes.
		On Powhatan’s death in 1618, Opechancanough, chief of the Pamunkey, became the central power in the confederacy, and he organized the general attack (1622) in which some 350 settlers were killed.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/po/PowhatCon.html (343 words)

	Powhatan Indian Tribe
		Powhatan was also the original name of the town that Wahunsunacock (the Chief Powhatan) came from (present site of Richmond, Virginia), as well as the name of the river where it sat (today called the James River).
		When this chief created a powerful empire by conquering much of Virginia, he called his lands Tenakomakah and himself the Powhatan, actually a title corresponding to 'Emperor', but often assumed to be his given name.
		Powhatan County was named in honour Chief Powhatan and his tribe, although located about 60 miles to the west of lands ever under their control.
	www.comanchelodge.com /nations/powhatan-tribe.html (628 words)

	THE POWHATAN REMNANTS
		The "Powhatan" word is not the name of a particular tribe but rather a generic name for a group of Algonquian speaking tribes that formed an alliance.
		Chief Powhatan and his people lived on the North side of the James River in Henrico County.
		The Powhatan villages were strategically placed enabling the Indians to have a commanding view of the waterways and the people traveling them, especially their enemies.
	www.melungeons.com /articles/powhatanremnants.htm (4953 words)

	The Powhatan Native American Indians
		The Powhatan Indians occupied a territory that encompassed a large portion of the coastal plains of Virginia.
		By the end of the century the Powhatans numbers were reduced to a few hundred, mostly because of wars and disease, and they inhabited only small corners of what used to be their large territory.
		The Powhatan found the barrens to be useless lands because of the layer of pine straw that covered the forest floor making it hard for other plants and animal to thrive.
	oz.plymouth.edu /~lts/wilderness/Amerinds/powhatan.html (1162 words)

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		Little Turtle was one of the principal chiefs among the coalition of Shawnees, Miamis, Delawares, Potawatomis, Ottawas, Chippewas, and Wyandots in the Old Northwest (Ohio Country).
		The son of a Miami chief and a Mohican mother, Little Turtle became a Miami war chief because of his extraordinary personal abilities; under ordinary circumstances, the matriarchal nature of the culture would have prohibited a leadership role for him.
		He would later become a principal chief in the Kiowa Wars of the 1860s-1870s and was known as "The Orator of the Plains." When Little Mountain died in 1866, Satanta became the leader of the war faction of the Kiowas.
	www.axel-jacob.de /chiefs12.html (3903 words)

	The Anglo-Powhatan Wars
		Powhatan lacked the military capability to know the English were coming, or to block access to his lands and keep the English at the periphery of his empire.
		Powhatan had corn to trade (as well as furs and information), and he carefully orchestrated his meetings with the English to establish his authority and to gain tactical advantages during negotiations.
		One leader of the Potowomacks even went to far as to seize Powhatan's daughter when she was there on a "state visit." He traded pocahontas to an English sea captain for a copper kettle, and she became a pawn in peace negotiations.
	www.virginiaplaces.org /nativeamerican/anglopowhatan.html (1738 words)

	German American Corner: First Germans at Jamestown 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Powhatan must have realized that Adam, Franz, and Samuel were bound by a special bond; perhaps he concluded from their distinctive language that they belonged to a different tribe from the English.
		He "extremely complained" that Powhatan had "detained them per force." Franz declared that he had "made this escape with the hazard of his life." He explained that "to save their lives they were constrained" by Powhatan to supply him with arms.
		Powhatan replied, however, the "the Dutchmen would not return, neither did Powhatan stay them; and to bring them fifty miles on his men's backs they were not able." Powhatan was having his little joke with Smith; the chief had his reasons for detaining the Germans.
	www.germanheritage.com /Publications/Jamestown/accusations.html (1839 words)

	Penraker: More Indian Myths
		Powhatan was a war-like leader who had invaded and crushed the neigboring tribes.
		Chief Powhatan, also known among his people [called the Powhatan tribe] as Wahunsenecah collected steep tributes from the conquered tribes - fully 80% of all they grew, caught, or made, from grain and fish to pelts and pearls.
		Under Powhatan, males of the empire were trained from early childhood to be warriors and hunters.
	www.penraker.com /archives/004736.html (1338 words)

	Powhatan Language and the Powhatan Indian Tribe (Powatan, Powhatten, Powhattan)
		This chief later united and/or conquered much of what is now Virginia, and called his lands the Powhatan Empire and himself Chief Powhatan (English lords did the same thing, if you think about it.) Modern-day Powhatans trace their roots to this powerful but short-lived empire.
		Though Powhatan is known today primarily as the father of the highly romanticized heroine Pocahontas, in fact he was a powerful leader who controlled most of eastern Virginia.
		The marriage of Pocahontas to a prominent settler was meant to ensure peace between the Powhatan and British Empires, but she and her father both died prematurely, and after a few ill-fated attempts at rebellion, the Powhatan Confederacy was destroyed by the British in 1644.
	www.native-languages.org /powhatan.htm (444 words)

	VA Studies - VS.3g
		The boundaries of the Powhatan confederacy reached from the Potomac River, west to the fall line of Virginia (which is the boundary between the Coastal Plains and the Piedmont) and south to the Virginia-North Carolina border.
		Chief Powhatan lost patience with the English when they began drilling their men outside the fort at Jamestown, appearing to prepare an attack.
		The Powhatans saw the fort as a sign of both permanence and of distrust on the part of the English.
	vastudies.pwnet.org /vs3/vs3_g.htm (940 words)

	Ryan McClellan
		Powhatan was a powerful, fierce, and clever leader, and anything foreign to his lands he would not tolerate.
		As the Powhatans were ready to begin bashing his brains, Pocahontas stepped out from the crowd and quickly took Smith’s "head in her armes and laid her owne upon his to save him from death." (Woodward 71) Chief Powhatan ordered to spare John Smith’s head due to his daughter’s wants.
		Word was send to her father, Chief Powhatan, and he gave consent for them to marry, which surprised everyone and agreed to peace.
	muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/papers/mcclellan-r.html (2371 words)

	Virtual Jamestown: Powhatan
		Powhatan was the leader, or chief, of the Powhatan federation of Indians that occupied Virginia in the early seventeenth century.
		Powhatan was a proud and respected leader, the equivalent of an English king already.
		Powhatan admonished the governor to treat his daughter well and seemed content to allow her to remain among the English.
	www.virtualjamestown.org /Powhat1.html (967 words)

	GORP - Arkansas State Parks - Powhatan Courthouse State Park
		Powhatan, pronounced "Pow-uh-TAN," with accents on the first and last syllables, was named for the Indian chief Powhatan, whose three empires in the early 17th century covered most of eastern Virginia.
		Powhatan began its decline when the Frisco Railroad bypassed the town, roads improved, and rail travel began to overtake river passage as the preferred method of transportation.
		Unlike earlier jails, the Powhatan jail was built with native limestone quarried on a farm north of Strawberry.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/location/ar/parks/powha.htm (1022 words)

	The Pocahontas Myth - Powhatan Renape Nation - the real story, not Disney's Distortion
		The truth of the matter is that the first time John Smith told the story about this rescue was 17 years after it happened, and it was but one of three reported by the pretentious Smith that he was saved from death by a prominent woman.
		In fact, the starving adventurer reported he had been kept comfortable and treated in a friendly fashion as an honored guest of Powhatan and Powhatan's brothers.
		During Pocahontas' generation, Powhatan's people were decimated and dispersed and their lands were taken over.
	www.powhatan.org /pocc.html (681 words)

	Jamestown 1607 Race Relations
		Under Chief Powhatan's rule, males of the empire were trained to be hunters and warriors.
		Chief Powhatan had enemies — the Monacans to the west and the Susquehannocks to the north — and Smith promised to give him weapons, but just one piece at a time — to conquer his foes.
		A Powhatan chief named Opechancanough — a brother of Chief Powhatan — was skeptical of the English and eager to be rid of them, never once believing that they just came to his land for gold.
	www.jamestown1607.org /relations_v2.asp (312 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Captain John Smith & Pocahontas
		It was led by 60-year-old Chief Wahunsenacawh (commonly known as Chief Powhatan, father of Pocahontas).
		A coordinated attack by the Powhatans in 1622, headed by Opechancanough (Chief Powhatan's successor and brother), was ineffective in eliminating the English.
		The English considered the Powhatan men to be lazy because hunting (their primary chore) was considered a sporting pastime and the Powhatan women performed most of the other vital tasks.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635177554,00.html (1418 words)

	Indians of the Southern Colonies - Virginia
		Thanks to John Smith, Chief Powhatan and his daughter Pocahontas, the Algonquians are perhaps the most popular Indians in American History.
		Powhatan entertained thoughts of wiping out the English colonists at Jamestown, but his awe of English weapons and the marriage of Pocahontas to John Rolfe put to rest that idea.
		Powhatan died in 1618 to be replaced by Opechancanough.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/colonial_america_retired/33118 (449 words)

	John Rolfe and Pocahontas
		Powhatan sent her uncle, Opachisco, to give her away as his deputy in the church and to see the marriage blessed.
		Powhatan gave the newlyweds property on which Captain John Smith had built a small fort, used a a military outpost in the expansion of the colony.
		POWHATAN) was born December 03, 1751 in Surry Co., VA, and died 1807 in Cumberland Co., VA. He married MARY ANN UNKNOWN 1773 in Surry Co., VA. She was born August 23, 1758 in Surry Co., VA, and died 1790 in Cumberland Co., VA.
	www.geocities.com /gdingram2001/ingram/pocahontas.html (4108 words)

	Virginia museums feature artifacts, belongings of Powhatan, Pocahontas : ICT [2007/03/14]
		Powhatan was said to have worn a cloak made of four deerskins sewn together with sinew and decorated with white shells.
		Capt. John Smith wrote about Powhatan's clothing, stating his attire was that of the higher social class of Virginia Indians, as noted in the cloak description.
		In the Powhatan exhibit, the Pamunkeys have a photograph of Powhatan's cloak.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096414655 (1504 words)

	The "War Aims" of Chief Powhatan and the English
		Chief Powhatan was the leader of the Virginia tribes who occupied the lands where the English arrived.
		Powhatan would have retained control of the Peninsula and the rest of his confederacy, along with the iron tools he had acquired from the English.
		The English tactics were similar to Powhatan's - spurts of overt hostility, mixed in with attempts to replace open warfare with a warm peace or at least a cold war.
	www.virginiaplaces.org /classschedule/8why1.html (1733 words)

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