Chief Powhatan

Chief Powhatan

male, deceased (1618)
Chief Powhatan ("c." 1547-"c." 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh or (in seventeenth century English spelling) Wahunsunacock, was the...
Leonard Bloomfield

Leonard Bloomfield

male, deceased (1949)
Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist, whose influence dominated the development of structural linguistics in America between the 1930s and...

David Zeisberger

male, deceased (1808)
David Zeisberger was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native Americans in the Thirteen Colonies. He established communities of Munsee...

Weroance

male
A weroance is an Algonquian word meaning tribal chief, leader, commander, or king, notably among the Powhatan confederacy of the Virginia coast and...
Don Luis

Don Luis

male
Don Luis (b. 1543? - 1646 ?) was a Native American who was the son of an Algonquian chief in an area which eventually became Virginia in the United...

Totopotomoi

male, deceased (1656)
Totopotomoi (ca. 1625-1656) was a grandson of a sister of Chief Powhatan, the father of Pocahontas. He became the Chief of the Pamunkey Tribe in...
Turkey Tayac

Turkey Tayac

male, deceased (1978)
Turkey Tayac was a Piscataway Indian leader and herbal doctor, born Philip Sheridan Proctor, in 1895 in Charles County, Maryland. Tayac was the...

Obbatinewat

male
Obbatinewat was a 17th century Algonquian sachem who lived in what is now Massachusetts. "Mourt's Relation", written "circa" 1620 and describing...

William Filley

male, 392 years old
William Filley was one of the founders of Windsor, Connecticut, USA,. He helped establish a trading post on the Connecticut River near present-day...

Joseph Frye

male, deceased (1794)
Joseph Frye (1712-1794), a renowned military leader from Colonial Maine, obtained the rank of General in the Massachusetts militia after serving...