Powhatan

How To Use Powhatan In A Sentence

• Powhatan, for the purchase of his place called Powhatan, which he was willing to accept; but the disorderly spirits he had sent thither, who were dreaming that the country immediately above them was full of gold, to which they wished no one to have access but themselves, refused the place or to ratify the contract, despising alike his kindness and his authority. Historical collections of Virginia
• This was the "Powhatan" of the Indians; and no true lover of Virginia can cease to deplore the change which robbed this graceful stream of a title pregnant with all the associations of Indian valor and of the departed glory of their empire, and bestowed a name that can only recall a royal pedant and a timid despot! The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
• To place him more advantageously the President sent to Powhatan, offering to buy the place called Powhatan, promising to defend him against the Monacans, to pay him in copper, and make a general alliance of trade and friendship. The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
• The Mattaponi are decedents of Chief Powhatan, father of Pocahontas and ruler of large portions of what is now tidewater Virginia.
• The Powhatan also knew the Susquehannock whom they called cannibals from painful experience, and when the English first settled Virginia, the Powhatan had placed their villages well inland to protect them from Susquehannock war parties who ranged the coastline by canoes. History of American Women
• The feast at an end, Powhatan called his councilors to his side, and while they were in earnest debate Captain Smith knew only too well that his fate was hanging in the balance. Ten American Girls From History
• These new English settlers looked and acted very differently from Powhatan's tribe.
• That was undoubtedly the point of vantage, but The Powhatan was a much dreaded werowance and they dared not risk his ire. The Princess Pocahontas
• In fact, Rountree's role in securing state recognition for nonreservation tribes was primarily applied toward the Powhatan groups.
• The marriage stabilized relations between the English and Powhatans until after her death.