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Powhatan
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Powhatan (1547–1618) chief of an Indian confederation, father of Pocahontas. At the peak of his power Powhatan controlled approximately 9,000 Indians in the Virginia Tidewater region. After opposing the British settlement at Jamestown, Powhatan allegedly changed his mind after his daughter, Pocahontas, begged him to show mercy toward the captured English captain
John Smith. Although the British attempted to placate the Indians with gifts, the Indians resented the settlers' relentless encroachment on their territory. After Pocahontas married an Englishman, Captain John Rolfe, in 1614, Powhatan signed a peace treaty with the English, and good relations prevailed between the two groups for the rest of the chief's life.
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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma. By Camilla Townsend. American...begins with brief surveys of aboriginal Powhatan Indian culture, especially as it was...a daughter of the paramount chief, Powhatan, and of the history and intentions...
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Powhatan County Schools to Roll-Out Innovative Anonymous Online Messaging Service for Students.
PR Newswire; 9/27/2007; 700+ words
; ...for schools, today announced that the Powhatan County School District located outside...online messaging service reflects the Powhatan County School District's dedication...leveraging facilities, technology and Powhatan County's experienced educators...
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Baseball: Grafton's reign ended by a run: Powhatan uses strong pitching and defense to beat Grafton.
Newspaper article from: Daily Press (Newport News, VA); 6/3/2006; 700+ words
; ...Byline: Jason Jordan Jun. 3--POWHATAN -- Headed into the bottom of the...inning against Grafton on Friday, Powhatan leadoff hitter Michael Wallace knew...on a single, Wallace knew that Powhatan was about to have another run...
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Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Southern Cultures; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough Three Indian Lives...Rountree has spent most of her life in Powhatan country, researching the history and...associating with the descendants of Powhatan people, and teaching the history of...
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Site of Powhatan's Village to Be on List
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/28/2006; ; 526 words
; ...John Smith met the powerful Indian chief Powhatan _ and where Smith said the chief's...York River in Gloucester County, was Powhatan's headquarters when Jamestown, the...North America, was founded in 1607. Powhatan ruled over a native population of about...
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Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: The American Indian Quarterly; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; Frederic Gleach. Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A...encounter and evolving relationship between Powhatan's people and the English who colonized...ethnographic, and archaeological work on Powhatan's people and the English settlers...
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Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and...55.00, ISBN 0-80324798-2.) In Powhatan Lords of Life and Death, anthropologist...underlying premise is how best to translate Powhatan religious and political forms into English...
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Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and...00, ISBN 0-8032-4798-2.) In Powhatan Lords of Life and Death, anthropologist...underlying premise is how best to translate Powhatan religious and political forms into English...
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Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict...Gleach analyzes complex, ancient Powhatan beliefs and uses them to reinterpret selective...facts and vital sources to the contrary. Powhatan's World may be the first postmodernist...
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Titan and Powhatan Ready Mix Enter Agreement in Virginia.
Business Wire; 4/6/2007; 476 words
; ...Mechanicsville Concrete, Inc. (d/b/a Powhatan Ready Mix), a supplier of ready-mix concrete in the Greater Richmond market. Powhatan will continue to operate as a standalone...following its anticipated purchase in May. Powhatan currently operates five ready mix plants...
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Powhatan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Powhatan Powhatan (ca. 1550-1618) was chief of a confederation of Algonquian Indians in Virginia at the time of the British colonization of Jamestown. Powhatan was the son of a chief reportedly driven from Florida by the Spaniards...
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Powhatan Confederacy
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
POWHATAN CONFEDERACY POWHATAN CONFEDERACY, a paramount chiefdom in the coastal plain of Virginia, named for its leader at the time of English colonization. Powhatan had inherited the leadership of a group of six tribes in the sixteenth...
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Powhatan's Speech to John Smith (1607)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
POWHATAN'S SPEECH TO JOHN SMITH (1607) In his speech, Powhatan (1547 – 1618), the father of Pocahontas...native hunters captured Smith, they presented him to Powhatan for judgment. What occurred next has been the subject...
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Powhatan Incident
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
POWHATAN INCIDENT POWHATAN INCIDENT. When the Civil War began, President Abraham Lincoln determined...supremacy in Lincoln's cabinet, secretly ordered the war-ship Powhatan to Fort Pickens instead of Fort Sumter. Although Lincoln eventually...
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Powhatan Indians
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Powhatan Indians, confederacy of Algonquian tribes in Virginia...ended when Pocahontas , daughter of the chief known as Powhatan, married the English settler John Rolfe. After Powhatan's death (1618), a successor, Opechancanough...
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