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nounPlural Powhatans ˈpaʊətanpouˈhatn 1A member of an Algonquian people of eastern Virginia. Example sentencesExamples - Her people, the Powhatan, are unquestionably the caretakers of this new world.
- He responded by attempting to have his book on the Powhatans banned in Virginia.
- In 1622, the year that English settlers and Powhatans went to war near the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in a contest that helped colonists acquire more land for tobacco fields, Johannes Neander's treatise on tobacco appeared in Europe.
- Bacon's Rebellion marked an appropriation of the Powhatans ' external trade routes.
- They engrossed the land seized from the Powhatans, switched from white servants to enslaved blacks in the labor base, and positioned themselves at the control point in the tobacco and slave trades.
2mass noun The extinct Algonquian language of the Powhatan.
adjective ˈpaʊətanpouˈhatn Relating to the Powhatan or their language. Example sentencesExamples - He continually, though unsuccessfully, pressed the Powhatan tribes to form a unified political alliance and sought to help the groups straighten their tribal organizations from within.
- Rather than a surprise execution, ‘Smith, all unawares, was perhaps being adopted into the Powhatan tribe, with Pocahontas as his sponsor’.
- Virginia enjoyed a long peace with the Indians from the end of the final Powhatan war until 1675.
- Her book is by far the most comprehensive work on the Powhatan tribes.
- ‘I have seen the death of all my people thrice,’ the Powhatan chief told John Smith, showing him the few villages and perhaps 5,000 people that remained from the 50,000 or 60,000 of the original society.
proper nounPlural Powhatansˈpaʊətanˈpouəˌtan (circa 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 John Rolfe, an English colonist, in 1614.
nounpouˈhatn 1A member of an Algonquian people of eastern Virginia. Example sentencesExamples - Her people, the Powhatan, are unquestionably the caretakers of this new world.
- They engrossed the land seized from the Powhatans, switched from white servants to enslaved blacks in the labor base, and positioned themselves at the control point in the tobacco and slave trades.
- In 1622, the year that English settlers and Powhatans went to war near the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in a contest that helped colonists acquire more land for tobacco fields, Johannes Neander's treatise on tobacco appeared in Europe.
- Bacon's Rebellion marked an appropriation of the Powhatans ' external trade routes.
- He responded by attempting to have his book on the Powhatans banned in Virginia.
2The Algonquian language of the Powhatan.
adjectivepouˈhatn Relating to the Powhatan or their language. Example sentencesExamples - Virginia enjoyed a long peace with the Indians from the end of the final Powhatan war until 1675.
- He continually, though unsuccessfully, pressed the Powhatan tribes to form a unified political alliance and sought to help the groups straighten their tribal organizations from within.
- ‘I have seen the death of all my people thrice,’ the Powhatan chief told John Smith, showing him the few villages and perhaps 5,000 people that remained from the 50,000 or 60,000 of the original society.
- Rather than a surprise execution, ‘Smith, all unawares, was perhaps being adopted into the Powhatan tribe, with Pocahontas as his sponsor’.
- Her book is by far the most comprehensive work on the Powhatan tribes.
proper nounˈpouəˌtan (circa 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 John Rolfe, an English colonist, in 1614.
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