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Who was
Powhatan?
When the English arrived in Virginia in 1607, Powhatan, whose informal name was Wahunsunacock, was the acknowledged paramount chief of more than 32 tribes, with more than 150 towns. Powhatan, who was probably in his 60’s when he first met the English, had acquired leadership of these tribes through inheritance and coercion. He held his position not only through military strength, but also through great personal and spiritual charisma, as well as a complex system of social rules not fully understood by the English. The tribes under Powhatan’s leadership paid tribute to his treasury in food and goods, which were then used for redistribution, trade, rewards and ceremonial display. In the early years of the English colony, Powhatan’s first intent was to incorporate the English into his polity as another tribe. Thwarted by the English, who had another agenda, he retired from leadership around 1616 and died in April 1618.
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