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Powhatan, Indian name Wa-Hun-Sen-A-Cawh or Wahunsonacook (1550?-1618), father
of the Indian princess Pocahontas. He was the chief of the Powhatan confederacy
of Algonquian Indian tribes in what is now Virginia, at the time the English
first settled there.
"Powhatan," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1993 Microsoft Corporation.
Copyright (c) 1993 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation
Algonquian, most populous and widely distributed of the North American Indian
linguistic stocks, originally comprising several hundred tribes that spoke
nearly 50 related languages. The Algonquian people occupied most of the
Canadian region south of Hudson Bay between the Rocky Mountains and the
Atlantic Ocean and, excluding certain territory held by Siouan and Iroquoian
tribes, that section of what is now the United States extending northward from
North Carolina and Tennessee. Algonquian tribes inhabited various isolated
areas to the south and west, including parts of what are now South Carolina,
Iowa, Wyoming, and Montana. The best-known Algonquian tribes include the
Algonquin, from which the stock takes its name, Amalecite, Blackfoot, Cheyenne,
Conoy, Cree, Delaware, Fox, Gros Ventre, Kickapoo, Massachuset, Miami, Micmac,
Mohegan, Mohican, Montagnais, Musi, Narragansett, Naskapi, Nipmuc, Ojibwa,
Ottawa, Pequot, Potawatomi, Sauk, Shawnee, Tete de Boule, and Wampanoag. Some
of the principal Algonquian confederacies were the Abnaki, Pennacook, and
Illinois. See American Indian Languages. For additional information, see
separate articles on many of the tribes mentioned.
"Algonquian," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1993 Microsoft Corporation.
Copyright (c) 1993 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation
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