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Chickahominy, but they managed to preserve their autonomy from the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom.[citation needed] The Accawmacke, located on the Eastern Shore...

the English almost eliminated the confederacy. By 1646, the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom had been decimated, not just by warfare but from the infectious...

groups of Virginia. Powhatan was likely the dominant language of what is now eastern Virginia, and was used in the Powhatan Chiefdom. The first Europeans...

Chief Powhatan in the late 16th century. The tribe spoke an Algonquian language, like other members of the Powhatan Chiefdom. The paramount chiefdom of the...

historical people were part of the Powhatan paramountcy, made up of Algonquian-speaking nations. The Powhatan paramount chiefdom was made up of over 30 nations...

daughter of Chief Powhatan, paramount chief of Tsenacommacah, an alliance of about thirty Algonquian-speaking groups and petty chiefdoms in the Tidewater...

(Mattapa-nient) • Pamunkey • Youghtanund • Powhatan Through his chiefdom, Powhatan obtained the following tribes known as The Powhatan Confederacy (Tsenacommacah):...

mountains. About 30 Algonquian tribes were allied in the powerful Powhatan paramount chiefdom along the coast. During English colonization and the formation...

as existing in Native American confederacies and regional chiefdoms, such as the Powhatan Confederacy and Piscataway Native Americans encountered by...

tribe was a Native American tributary to the Powhatan paramount chiefdom, incorporated into the chiefdom around 1596 or 1597. The Paspahegh Indian tribe...

000 years. The Powhatan Chiefdom inhabited the land of Elizabeth City pre-1607 and was made up of over 30 tribes all ruled by the Powhatan paramount Chief...

political nature of the chiefdom through additional excavations. Both the newly identified site on Purtan Bay and Powhatan's Chimney are located within...

Tidewater region was populated by the Powhatan peoples who called the lands Tsenacommacah. The Powhatan Chiefdom was made up of over 30 tribes numbering...

Piscataway affiliation was intended for protection against the rival Powhatan Chiefdom of eastern Virginia. The Piscataway Chief, or tayac, held a loose...

He served as the chief of Pamunkey and as werowance of the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom for the term lasting from about 1649 to 1656, when he died in...

the chiefdom by his older brother Opitchapam (during which Opechancanough was war chief), Opechancanough became paramount chief of the Powhatan Confederacy...

that region. In 1540 dozens of chiefdoms and several paramount chiefdoms were scattered throughout the southeast. Chiefdoms featured a noble class ruling...

the area had become a village occupied by the lower orders of the Powhatan chiefdom with the structures conforming to Robert Beverley's description of...

Legend   Extant sovereign dynasties   Extant non-sovereign dynasties Powhatan Chiefdom (?–1646) Sachem (?–1676) Iroquois Confederacy (1142–present) Hunkpapa...

neutre." They traded deer hides and byproducts to as far south as the Powhatan chiefdom on Chesapeake Bay for the prized Snow Whelk (Buccinidae) marine shells...