Associations to the word «Powhatan»

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POWHATAN, noun. A member of a Native American confederation of tribes in Virginia.

POWHATAN, proper noun. Their eastern Algonquian language.

POWHATAN, noun. Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618).

POWHATAN, noun. A member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia.

POWHATAN, noun. The Algonquian language of the Powhatan.

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