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Wahunsonacock

DEFINITIONS OF: Wahunsonacock

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

Synonyms:
Powhatan
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Algonquian, Algonquin
a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
Indian chief, Indian chieftain
the leader of a group of Native Americans
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