Powhatan
1550?-1618; Algonquian Indian chief in E Va.: father of
PocahontasSee Powhatan in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(pouˌə-tănˈ, pou-hătˈn) Originally Wahunsonacock. 1550?-1618.
Algonquian leader who founded the Powhatan confederacy and maintained peaceful relations with English colonists after the marriage of his daughter Pocahontas to John Rolfe (1614).
(pouˌə-tănˈ, pou-hătˈn)
noun pl. Powhatan Powhatan or
Pow·ha·tans a. A confederacy of Native American peoples of eastern Virginia in the 16th and 17th centuries, with present-day descendants in the same area.
b. A member of this confederacy.
- The Algonquian language of the Powhatan, a dialect of Virginia Algonquian.
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