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Powhatan
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Powhatan
[disambiguation] Powhatan is a Virginia Indian tribe. Powhatan or Powhattan may also refer to: ==People with the given name== ... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powhatan_(disambiguation)
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Powhatan
The Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten) is the name of a Virginia Indian confederation of tribes. It is estimated that there were about 14,000–21,000 of these native Powhatan people in eastern Virginia when the English settled Jamestown in 1607. They were also known as Virginia Algonquia... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powhatan
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Powhatan
[n] - Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in Eastern Virginia 2. [n] - a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia 3. [n] - the Algonquian language of the Powhatan people Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=Powhatan
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Powhatan
(c. 1550-1618) Pamunkey Powhatan chief. He inherited the chieftainship of the so-called Powhatan Confederacy from his father, and greatly extended it until, by the arrival of the English (1607), it was an... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688
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Powhatan
noun the Algonquian language of the Powhatan Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Powhatan
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Powhatan
noun a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Powhatan
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Powhatan
noun Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618) Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Powhatan
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Powhatan
confederacy of at least 30 Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribes that once occupied most of what is now tidewater Virginia, the eastern ... [4 related articles] Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/104
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Powhatan
North American Indian leader, father of Pocahontas. He presided over the Powhatan empire at the time the English established the Jamestown Colony ... [7 related articles] Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/104
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Powhatan
Powhatan (pou"utăn') , d. 1618, Native North American chief of the Powhatan tribe in Virginia, whose personal name was Wahunsonacock. He greatly extended the dominion of the Powhatan Confederacy and after the marriage (1614) of his daughter Pocahontas to John Rolfe kept peace with the ... Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0839956.html
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Powhatan
Powhatan was an American Indian chief. He was born about 1550 and died about 1618. He was the chief of thirty tribes of Indians, numbering about 8000, occupying territory between the James and York rivers in Virginia. He was visited by Captain John Smith in 1609, who made negotiations for provisions... Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/CXP.HTM
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powhatan
1) Algonquian 2) Algonquin 3) Indian chief 4) Indian chief also known as wa-hun-sen-a-cawh 5) Indian chieftain 6) Powhatan 7) Town in lawrence county arkansas, usa 8) Wahunsonacock Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/powhatan/1
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