Powhatan
the name of an Indian confederacy, which at an early day lived on the E. shore of Virginia and a portion of Maryland. They at first numbered only seven tribes, but under the leadership of their chief, Powhatan, increased to 30. The English found them when forming the colony at Jamestown. Constant troubles between the confederacy, the English, and the Iroquois, soon destroyed nearly all the Powhatan tribes, and after 1684 they were not recognized as a separate nation.
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