powhatan in English

noun

1

a member of an American Indian people of eastern Virginia.

He responded by attempting to have his book on the Powhatans banned in Virginia.

2

the Algonquian language of the Powhatan.

3

( c.1550–1618 ) , Algonquian Indian chief; Indian name Wahunsonacock . He was the leader of the Powhatan Confederacy, an alliance of about 30 tribes that were located primarily in eastern Virginia. Often noted for his ruthlessness, he made peace with the colonists after his daughter Pocahontas married Englishman John Rolfe in 1614.

adjective

1

relating to the Powhatan or their language.

Rather than a surprise execution, ‘Smith, all unawares, was perhaps being adopted into the Powhatan tribe, with Pocahontas as his sponsor’.

Use "powhatan" in a sentence

1. Cornstalk Wind Clan Powhatan Cornstalk was born in 1598, at birth place, Virginia, to Ensenore Algonkian "Running Stream" Weroance (Chief of the Powhatan) Powhatan and Scent Flower PauPauwiske Powhatan

2. Powhatan Beaty (October 8, 1837 – December 6, 1916) was an African American soldier and actor

3. Appomattoc – A tribe of the Powhatan Confederacy who spoke the Algonquian language, they formerly lived on the lower Appomattox River in Virginia

4. Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War

5. Powhatan, Confederacy of at least 30 Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribes that once occupied most of what is now tidewater Virginia, the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, and possibly southern Maryland.The Confederacy had been formed by and named for a powerful chief, Powhatan, shortly before the colonial settlement of Jamestown in 1607.

6. Here more than 200 of those grim courtiers stood wondering at him [Smith], as he had been a monster; till Powhatan and his train had put themselves in their Braveries

7. Which of the following statements best explains why Powhatan dresses himself in his "greatest Braveries." The General History of Virginia and Of Plymouth Plantation DRAFT

8. Some of the Algonkian tribes Townsend mentions throughout the book include the Powhatan, the Rappahannock, the Paspahegh, the Appomattock, the Weyanock, the Quioccohannock, and the Chiskiak

9. Artisans serves the Central Virginia area which includes Chesterfield, Henrico, Goochland, Powhatan, Richmond and the Tri-city Area, You can select from a full range of grains, hops, yeasts, ingredient kits

10. After a series of violent conflicts between the Powhatan Chiefdom and English colonists, the Nansemond community was divided between those who chose to assimilate to a "Christianized" lifestyle and those who chose to remain "traditional."1 As the Nansemond people were displaced from their ancestral…

11. Eccentric spelling of plural of Appomattoc, name of a local subgroup of the Powhatan (Algonquian) confederacy in Virginia (first attested as Apamatic, 1607).Site of last battle for Army of Northern Virginia (CSA) in the American Civil War, and of Lee's surrender to Grant in Wilmer McLean house, April 9, 1865.