Essay On Powhatan

The first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, was created by the English when they arrived in Virginia in 1607, they did not encounter an inhabited land. The Powhatan Cheifdom numbered 15,000 or something close to the amount. The Chief Powhatan has the given name, which was Wahunsunacock.
Now you may ask, who is Powhatan?
Powhatan is not a who, but a what. Powhatan is a group of Native American people in the state of Virginia. Although, sometimes Powhatan can also be referred as the leader of this Native American group in Virginia. But when someone is referring to the leader they say the name "Powtitianna".
When the English settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, it has been estimated that there were about fourteen thousand to twenty one thousand

Powhatan people living there.
The Powhatans spoke an eastern Algonquian language that has been know as a language called Powhatan or also known as Virginia Algonquian. The Powhatans were also called and known as Virginia Algonquians.
The territory in eastern Virginia, was created by a powerful organization by making thirty tributary groups.
This event happened during the late sixteenth and the early seventeenth centuries, paramount chief (which is also known as a mamanatowick). The paramount chief which I speak of is named Wahunsunacawh (also very well known as Powhatan). They called the place where they lived a densely inhabited land, this translates into a name known as Tsenacommacah
Known by the English as, his name was originally Wahunsunacawh.

This is what everyone called him from the group as.
Hostilities and chaos with the colonists escalated or went up under the chiefdom of Powhatan's brother, who sought in vary and with no mercy to drive away the approaching English colonies.
This all occurred after the death of Powhatan which was in 1618.
What modern historians call Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom, had been decimated by the year of 1646. Resulting in the close elimination and disappearance of the Powhatan tribe, Openchancanough, Powhatan's brother, created big large scale attacks in the years of 1622 and 1644. This made the English meet strong reprisals.
Here is some more information which I have received and read over. From the source of Wikipedia, "More important than the ongoing conflicts with the English settlements was the high rate of deaths the Powhatan suffered due to new infectious diseases carried to North America by Europeans, such as measles and smallpox. The Native Americans did not have any immunity to these, which we had been endemic in Europe and Asia for centuries. The wholesale deaths greatly weakened and hallowed out the Native American

societies."