Chief Powhatan ("c." 1547-"c." 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh or (in seventeenth century English spelling) Wahunsunacock, was the leader of the Powhatan (also spelled "Powatan" and "Powhaten"), a powerful tribe of Native Americans, speaking an Algonquian language, who lived in Tenakomakah- which is now tidewater Virginia-at the time of the first English-Native encounters. Wikipedia
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