Tsenacommacah
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Tsenacommacah is the name given by the Powhatan people to their native homeland, the area encompassing all of Tidewater Virginia and parts of the Eastern Shore. More precisely, its boundaries spanned
Reconstructed Powhatan village at the Jamestown Settlement living-history museum.
Powhatan, whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh, was the leader of the Powhatan, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans living in Tsenacommacah, in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the t
Tsenacommacah
…Confederacy. Members spoke the Powhatan language. The leader or Mamanatowick of the Powhatan Confederacy in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Wahunsenacawh, had originally governed only six tribes in which he inherited matrilineally from his mother who was Pamunkey, but throughout the late 16th century…
Whitaker (left, in white vestments) as portrayed in Baptism of Pocahontas, 1840, by John Gadsby Chapman
The Mantle of Chief Powhatan