USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Powhatan Confederacy was made up of at least 30 Algonquian-speaking Native American tribes that used to occupy the coast of Virginia, Chesapeake Bay, and Southern Maryland. This confederacy was formed by Wahunsonacock, otherwise known as Powhatan, the powerful chief of the Powhatan tribe.

Detailed explanation-2: -1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh (alternately spelled Wahunsenacah, Wahunsunacock or Wahunsonacock), was the leader of the Powhatan, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans living in Tsenacommacah, in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time when English settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Powhatan Confederacy (c. 1570-1646 or 1677) was a political, social, and martial entity of over 30 Algonquian-speaking Native American tribes of the region of modern-day Virginia, Maryland, and part of North Carolina, USA formed under the leadership of Wahunsenacah Chief Powhatan (l. c. 1547-c. 1618).

Detailed explanation-4: -Powhatan, whose given name was Wahunsonacock, was the paramount chief of Tsenacomoco, a political alliance of Virginia Indians whose core six groups all settled along the James, Mattaponi, and Pamunkey rivers.