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  1. Powhatan
    [disambiguation] Powhatan is a Virginia Indian tribe. Powhatan or Powhattan may also refer to: ==People with the given name== ...
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  2. 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...
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  3. 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
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  4. 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...
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  5. Powhatan
    noun the Algonquian language of the Powhatan
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  6. Powhatan
    noun a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia
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  7. Powhatan
    noun Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)
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  8. 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]
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  9. 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]
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  10. 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 ...
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  11. 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...
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  12. 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
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