Powhatan (Native American leader)
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Nov 17, 2021 · By James Horn. November 17, 2021 1:42 PM EST. D uring the late sixteenth century, a great American Indian chiefdom arose along the mid-Atlantic coast of North America. Named Tsenacommacah (densely...
Opechancanough, a Powhatan chief and brother of Chief Powhatan, is thought to have been born in about 1552. His name meant “He whose Soul is White” in the Algonquian language. Upon his brother’s death in 1618, he took control of the Powhatan Confederacy.
opposition to Jamestown Colony. Chief Powhatan’s successor, Opechancanough, carried out a surprise attack on the colony on the morning of March 22, 1622. The attack was strongest at the plantations and other English outposts that now lined the James River.
Opechancanough (d. 1646) Opechancanough was a war-chief of Tsenacommacah, a political alliance of Algonquian-speaking Virginia Indians, who famously led assaults against the English settlers in 1622 and 1644. He was the younger brother (or cousin) of Powhatan, the paramount chief famous for his relations with the English at the time of their ...
Aug 30, 2022 · by The History of the Americans Podcast August 30, 2022. Play episode. Podcast: Play in new window | Download. Opechancanough, successor to paramount chief Powhatan, deserves to be remembered as one of the great indigenous leaders in American history, on the same rank as Massasoit, King Philip, Pontiac, Logan the Orator, Joseph Brant, Sitting ...
Opechancanough's 1622 Uprising in Virginia. Fifteen years after the settlement of Jamestown in 1607, the coastal Algonquian leader Opechancanough — brother of Powhatan, the chief who first encountered the English settlers — organized a surprise attack against the Virginia colonists.
Opechancanough ( /oʊpəˈtʃænkənoʊ/; 1554–1646) was the main chief of the Powhatan People. He followed his older brother Powhatan. He captured Captain John Smith. Opechancanough led the Powhatans in the Second and Third Anglo-Powhatan Wars. His tactics were not that diplomactic. He was captured and killed by the British in 1646.
