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1. 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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2. 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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3. Powhatan
   noun the Algonquian language of the Powhatan
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4. Powhatan
   noun a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia
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5. Powhatan
   noun Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. Powhatan
    The `Powhatan` (also spelled `Powatan` and `Powhaten`), is the name of a Virginia Indian confederation of tribes.<ref name="indians.vipnet.org">http://indians.vipnet.org/resources/writersGuide.pdf-->. It is estimated that there were about 14,000-21,000 of these native Powhatan people in...
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